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SECRET TUNNELS OF THE GIZA PLATEAU An Interview with Boris Said by Kenneth and Dee Burke of Leading Edge Newspaper research of John Anthony West, which sug- gests that the "water weathering" on the Sphinx indicates it is much older than pre- viously believed. Boris also produced a documentary, Secret Chamber, about the alleged room under the Sphinx, identified during research for Mystery of the Sphinx. Before becoming a documentary film- maker, Boris was a champion auto-racer and the US bobsled team driver in three Olympic Games. some well-meaning and some not-so-well- meaning people who are trying to get to the bottom of the Atlantis legend. Specifically, my ex-partner John Anthony West, as well as Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock who have both writ- ten wonderful books, basically succeeded in alienating most of the management of the Giza Plateau—Dr Zahi Hawass and his associates in the Egyptian Antiquities Organization. These three researchers have got themselves locked off the plateau. There has been a lot of acrimony, accusa- tion and name-calling. The bottom line is that they have pretty much been locked out of any kind of investigation. What developed out of that was a con- spiracy theory—which my good friend Richard Hoagland added to—with this dis- covery of an illicit tunnel in the [Great] Pyramid. The tunnel is allegedly heading for a room at the end of an air shaft— which was discovered by a German robotic camera, operated by Rudolf Gantenbrink who was also ultimately asked to leave the plateau. I have been filming over there since 1991. I have never been denied access to anything, so if there is a secret tunnel in the chambers above the King's Chamber, then why would they have given me, on two occasions, permission to take a television crew up there? We have had cameras all oris Said took part in writing and B producing the Emmy Award-win- ning NBC-TV feature documentary, The Mystery of the Sphinx , hosted by Charlton Heston. The documentary focused on the Leading Edge Newspaper (LE): Our readership will be interested in the kind of presentation of your material that you are planning to give at the February [1998] Global Sciences Congress in Florida, USA. Boris Said (BS): What I plan on doing at the Global Sciences Congress is to debunk some of the mystique that has been built up around Egypt and the Giza Plateau by APRIL - MAY 1998 NEXUS 61