Overview

• A team led by Filippo Biondi from the University of Strathclyde applied ground-penetrating radar to the Pyramid of Menkaure after detecting shafts under Khafre in March
• Researchers report pillar-like shafts and chamber structures beneath Menkaure matching those under Khafre with a 90 percent probability of connection
• The team proposes a vast subterranean complex of tunnels and pillars linking the three main Giza pyramids and the Sphinx thousands of feet below ground
• Dr. Zahi Hawass and other Egyptologists reject the findings as unfounded, arguing radar cannot penetrate more than a few inches beneath the surface
• The unreviewed study hypothesizes a lost civilization from 38,000 years ago wiped out by a comet impact and awaits independent verification