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The pattern of erosion on the Sphinx indicates that it was carved at the end of the last ice age, when heavy rains fell on the eastern Sahara—perhaps more than 12,000 years ago. Also financed by Dr Schor is a short video, shot at the end of 1995 by Boris Said and produced in early 1996. The film opens with Dr Zahi Hawass scrambling into a tunnel leading under the Sphinx. When he reaches the bottom he turns to face the camera and whispers to the viewer: "Even Indiana Jones will never dream to be here. Can you believe it? We are now inside the Sphinx in this tunnel. This tunnel has never been opened before. No one really knows what's inside this tunnel. But we are going to open it for the first time." In commentary, the video's narrator goes on to state: "Edgar Cayce, America's famous ‘Sleeping Prophet’, predicted that a chamber would be discovered beneath the Sphinx—a chamber containing the recorded history of human civilisation. For the first time we'll show you what lies beneath this great statue...a Author and researcher, Graham Hancock. chamber which will be opened tonight, live for our television cameras." Prominent amongst Cayce's pronouncements were many state- Dr Schor also stated on 11th April that this video is not a pro- ments to the effect that the Sphinx had been built in 10,500 BC, — motional venture aimed at hooking a major US network to tele- and that survivors of Atlantis had concealed beneath it a Hall of | vise a live opening of a chamber under the Sphinx. On the con- Records containing all the wisdom of their lost civilisation and the _ trary, he insists, "Jt was made to test script and equipment and was true history of the human race. Cayce prophesied that this Hallof | made in November 1995...many months before we received Records would be rediscovered and opened between 1996 and _ approval for our expedition. We have abandoned its use..." 1998. He connected the opening to the second coming of Christ. On 14th April 1996, Dr Zahi Hawass announced in the In 1995, John West and Prof. Dr Robert Schoch of Boston _‘ Egyptian press that secret tunnels do indeed exist under the University put in an application to the Egyptian authorities to | Sphinx and around the pyramids, and stated his belief that these resume their research. Their application was ignored. tunnels would prove to “carry many secrets of the building of the At the beginning of April 1996, the Egyptian authorities grant- pyramids”. co ed a one-year licence to a new team to con- duct surveys around the Sphinx and the Giza necropolis using seismic equipment and ground-penetrating radar. This team, which claims academic sponsorship from Florida State University, is largely financed through the Schor Foundation of New York, by Dr Joseph Schor, an American multimillionaire. Dr Schor is a life member of the ARE. On 24th May 1994, he wrote of his great personal interest in corroborating "the Cayce records, which indicated that the culture which led to the building of the pyramids dates to 10,500 BC. He also stated his wish "to further delin- eate that civilisation". On 11th April 1996, Dr Schor said of his current project at the Sphinx: "We do not work for the Edgar Cayce Group... The major purpose of the Schor Foundation and the Florida State University is to aid in the preser- vation and restoration of the pyramids and Sphinx. In addition, we are surveying the underground of the Giza Plateau to find faults and chasms that might collapse. This will increase the safety of the plateau..." King's Chamber Grand Gallery Shaft explored n by robot Queen's Chamber “SQ Entrance a SOF Figure 3: Cross-section through the Great Pyramid at Giza showing chambers, passageways and shafts, including the one explored by the robot, Upuaut II. (Source: The Orion Mystery, by Robert Bauval & Adrian Gilbert, Heinemann, 1994) ok NEXUS ¢ 37 Author and researcher, Graham Hancock. OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1996