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It was recorded in ancient Sumerian cylinder seals that the the Great Pyramid. Written one thousand years ago, his descrip- secret abode of the Anunnaki was "an underground tion is comparable to the computerised robots shown today in place...entered through a tunnel, its entrance hidden by sand and space movies. Masoudi said that the automatons were pro- by what they call Huwana...his teeth as the teeth of a dragon, his grammed for intolerance, for they destroyed all "except those who face the face of a lion". That remarkable old text, unfortunately by their conduct were worthy of admission". Masoudi contended fragmented, added that "He [Huwana] is unable to move forward, that "written accounts of Wisdom and acquirements in the differ- nor is he able to move back", but they crept up on him from ent arts and sciences were hidden deep, that they might remain as behind and the way to "the secret abode of the Anunnaki" was no records for the benefit of those who could afterwards comprehend longer blocked. The Sumerian record provided a probable them". That is phenomenal information, as it is possible that, description of the lion-headed Sphinx at Giza, and if that great since the times of Masoudi, "worthy" persons have seen the mys- creature was built to guard or obliterate ancient stairways and terious underground chambers. Masoudi confessed, "I have seen lower passages leading to subterranean areas below and around it, things that one does not describe for fear of making people doubt then its symbolism was most appropriate. one's intelligence...but still I have seen them". Local 19th-century Arab lore maintained that existing under the In the same century, another writer, Muterdi, gave an account Sphinx are secret chambers holding treasures or magical objects. of a bizarre incident in a narrow passage under Giza, where a That belief was bolstered by the writings of the first-century group of people were horrified to see one of their party crushed to Roman historian Pliny, who wrote that deep death by a stone door that, by itself, suddenly below the Sphinx is concealed the "tomb of slid out from the face of the passageway and aruler named Harmakhis that contains great closed the corridor in front of them. treasure", and, strangely enough, the Sphinx Herodotus said Egyptian priests recited to itself was once called "The Great Sphinx him their long-held tradition of "the forma- Harmakhis who mounted guard since the tion of underground apartments" by the origi- time of the Followers of Horus". The nal developers of Memphis. The most Marcellinus made additional disclosures |, PM€ MOStANCient | reer iced some som of extensive chamber about the existence of subterranean vaults inscriptions therefore system below the surface of the areas sur- that appeared to lead to the interior of th ding the Sphinx and pyramids. Great Pyramid | «SU gested that there | rie od records were confirmed when Inscriptions which the ancients asserted existed some sort of the presence of a large cavity was discovered were engraved on the walls of certain extensive chamber in a seismic survey conducted at the site in underground galleries and passages were constructed deep in the dark interior to preserve ancient wis - dom from being lost in the flood. 1993. That detection was publicly acknowl- edged in a documentary called The Mystery of the Sphinx, screened to an audience of 30 million people on NBC TV later that year. The existence of chambers under the Sphinx is well known. Egyptian authorities confirmed another discovery in 1994; its unearthing was announced in a newspa- per report that was carried under the headline, "Mystery Tunnel in Sphinx": Workers repairing the ailing Sphinx have discovered an ancient passage leading deep into the body of the mysterious monument. The Giza Antiquities chief, Mr system below the surface of the areas surrounding the Sphinx and pyramids. A manuscript compiled by an Arab writer named Altelemsani is preserved in the British Museum, and it records the existence of a long, square, under- ground passage between the Great Pyramid and the River Nile with a "strange thing" blocking the Nile entrance. He related the following episode: In the days of Ahmed Ben Touloun, a party entered the Great Pyramid through the tunnel and found in a side-cham - Zahi Hawass, said there was no dispute the tunnel was very ber a goblet of glass of rare colour and texture. As they were old. However, what is puzzling is: who built the passage? leaving, they missed one of the party and, upon returning to Why? And where does it lead...? Mr Hawass said he had no seek him, he came out to them naked and laughing said, "Do plans to remove the stones blocking the entrance. The secret not follow or seek for me", and then rushed back into the tunnel burrows into the northern side of the Sphinx, about Pyramid. His friends perceived that he was enchanted. halfway between the Sphinx's outstretched paws and its tail.’ inscriptions therefore suggested that there existed some sort of system below the surface of the areas Upon learning about strange happenings under the Pyramid, Ahmed Ben Touloun expressed a desire to see the goblet of glass. During the examination, it was filled with water and weighed, then emptied and re-weighed. The historian wrote that it was "found to be of the same weight when empty as when full of water". If the chronicle is accurate, that lack of additional weight provided indirect evidence of the existence of an extraordinary science at Giza. According to Masoudi in the 10th century, mechanical statues with amazing capabilities guarded subterranean galleries under The popular supposition that the Sphinx is the true portal of the Great Pyramid has survived with surprising tenacity. That belief was substantiated by 100-year-old plans prepared by Masonic and Rosicrucian initiates, showing the Sphinx was the ornament sur- mounting a hall that communicated with all Pyramids by radiating underground passages. Those plans were compiled from informa- tion originally discovered by the supposed founder of the Order of the Rosicrucians, Christian Rosenkreuz, who allegedly penetrated a "secret chamber beneath the ground" and there found a library of books full of secret knowledge. 46 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2004 The most ancient extensive chamber surrounding the Sphinx and pyramids. www.nexusmagazine.com