Overview

• Italian researchers used ground-penetrating radar to detect pillar-like shafts beneath the Pyramid of Menkaure and report a 90% probability they mirror structures found under Khafre.
• They say these shafts form part of a dense network of tunnels linking all three primary pyramids across the Giza plateau.
• Critics including Dr. Zahi Hawass challenge the radar’s ability to image structures thousands of feet below ground and call for independent peer review.
• The team dates the subterranean complex to around 38,000 years ago, proposing it was built by a lost advanced civilization later erased by a comet-induced cataclysm 12,800 years ago.
• Researchers cite hieroglyphs from the Edfu temple describing a devastating “serpent” flood as a possible ancient record of the comet strike and subsequent inundation.