Researchers Claim Radar Detected Vast Underground Structures Beneath Egypt’s Iconic Pyramids

Researchers Claim Radar Detected Vast Underground Structures Beneath Egypt’s Iconic Pyramids

Recent radar imaging studies have revealed intriguing underground structures beneath the Giza pyramids, potentially challenging long-held beliefs about their purpose and construction.

Using advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology, scientists from Italy and Scotland claim to have discovered a vast subterranean complex stretching approximately 6500 feet beneath the Giza Plateau.

Using radar technology, the team led by Corrado Malanga from Italy’s University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland announced the findings of what they describe as a vast underground city stretching more than 6,500 feet directly beneath the pyramids.

“This groundbreaking study has redefined the boundaries of satellite data analysis and archaeological exploration,” said the project’s spokesperson, Nicole Ciccolo, according to The Sun. She elaborated that the discovery “could redefine our understanding of the sacred topography of ancient Egypt, providing spatial coordinates for previously unknown and unexplored subterranean structures.”

The researchers used a new radar technology known as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which combines satellite radar data with tiny vibrations from naturally occurring seismic movements. This method creates 3D images of what lies beneath the Earth’s surface without the need for physical excavation. Their study, still awaiting peer review, suggests that the complex is ten times larger than the pyramids themselves.

The researchers claim they have discovered eight cylinder-shaped spiral structures below the Pyramid of Khafre. However, Egyptologists are challenging these claims.

Researchers from Italy say they have uncovered giant vertical shafts wrapped in “spiral staircases” under the Khafre pyramid.

They said on Sunday that they found a limestone platform with two chambers and channels that resemble pipelines for a water system more than 2,100 feet below the pyramid, with underground pathways leading even deeper into the earth.

But the claims – which have not been published or independently peer-reviewed – were labelled “false” and “exaggerated” by fellow Egyptologists.

However, Egyptologists are not geologists. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology has been used to investigate a wide range of phenomena and applications across various fields with enormous success over the past 30 years.

SAR images have wide applications in remote sensing and mapping of surfaces of the Earth and other planets. Applications of SAR are numerous. Examples include topography, oceanography, glaciology, geology (for example, terrain discrimination and subsurface imaging). SAR can also be used in forestry to determine forest height, biomass, and deforestation. Volcano and earthquake monitoring use differential interferometry.

SAR can also be applied for monitoring civil infrastructure stability such as bridges.[6] SAR is useful in environment monitoring such as oil spills, flooding,[7][8] urban growth,[9] military surveillance: including strategic policy and tactical assessment.[5] SAR can be implemented as inverse SAR by observing a moving target over a substantial time with a stationary antenna.

Therefore, it seems reasonable to conclude that Malanga’s team did find a large substructure. But what that substructure is, and its origins, will need much more investigation.

Radar expert Professor Lawrence Conyers has explained that such technology could not possibly create images of structures thousands of feet below the ground and dubbed the paper’s findings “a huge exaggeration”.

However, he added that it could be possible that smaller structures – such as chambers – were built before the pyramids as it was a site which used to be “special to ancient people”.

He stressed how “the Mayans and other people in ancient Mesoamerica often built pyramids on top of the entrances of caves or caverns that had ceremonial meaning to them”, speaking to the Daily Mail.

Meanwhile, speculation remains intense.

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