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Simpson, went back to the newly baptised Tomb of the __ recorded on the plateau so far (despite the multitude of Birds, having gained sponsorship from the Association rumours). Our caves, even if proved to be isolated for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) in Virginia (which we hope is not the case), prove that Giza's Beach, Virginia, USA. geology does include a natural cave system, which is After some searching, they found a small crack in the — arguably what Abbas could have been detecting on the rock face that led into a huge natural cave chamber east side of the plateau in 2006. Salt records that the which connected with other cave compartments and a caves go for ‘several hundred yards’, then link with long cave passage. chambers and passages, one of which Caviglia explored In short, the trio realised that their structure for '300 feet further’. Note the word ‘further’. I say this coincided with the caves discovered in 1817. as people might try and say that what we found is al At present, no-one knows the total extent of the caves. _ there is to find, i.e., approximately 300 feet (90 metres As mentioned, Salt and Caviglia never reached the end, _ of caves, and no more. We did not reach the end, and and so far Collins has been unsuccessful in interesting neither did Salt and Caviglia. We reckon that the caves he Egyptian authorities in this extend to beneath the Second discovery. Pyramid. Chambers were detected Were the caves to continue beyond under the Second Pyramid by the SR he farthest point reached, they would Stanford Research Institute] team most likely head off in the direction of when they performed their scans o ne ho ak Pyramid (the Pyramid of "We reckon that he structure in 1977."° afre), whose southwestern corner is only 480 metres southwest from the the caves extend Emerald Tablets and Hidden Temples entrance 0 {he Tomb oft e Birds to beneath the ihe collinses discovery is therefore ollins did learn from a guardian . part of a slowly emerging picture tha iving in the vicinity that the cave Second Pyramid. shows that the Giza underground system went on for many kilometres. Chambers were olds several more secrets. Indeed, [The guardian added that it was Hawass himself, while drilling down in aunted by a giant snake called el- detected under the ront of the Sphinx temple in 1980, Hanash—the reason why he would Second Pyramid by struck red granite at a depth of 15 not go down there himself. metres. Red granite is not native As such, his claim is hearsay the SRI team when to the Giza Plateau; the only and not based on factual source is Aswan, hundreds of exploration. Still, there is a they performed miles to the south. The very tradition that existed through to their scans of the presence of red granite proves that there is a man-made structure underneath the plateau. Collins writes in his newly released book Beneath the Pyramids* that he has also identified another possible entrance to the mediaeval times that either the Great Pyramid or the Second Pyramid was the Tomb of Agathodaimon, the "good spirit", a Gnostic god in the form of a serpent which was said to "repose", or rest, beneath the Giza underground, in a well in a plateau. cemetery near the village of In his typically arrogant demeanour, the leader of the = Nazlet el-Samman at Gebel Ghibli. The cemetery is Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr Zahi Hawass, when largely off-limits and is obviously on sacred ground, confronted with news of Collins's discovery, claimed — which will make any scientific excavations virtually hat the structure had "recently" been explored by impossible. structure in 1977." Egyptologists. He commented: "This story shows how The well is dedicated to the holy man Hamid el- people who do not have a background in archaeology Samman, and Collins suspects that el-Samman, about use the media and the Internet to make headlines... which nothing is written, may be linked with the life of a When I saw this Internet story about a new discovery at Sufi master, Dhu'l-Nun al-Misri (759-859 AD), who is Giza, | knew it was misleading. The article reports thata — known to have died at Giza. uge system of tunnels and caves has been found; Born in Akhmin in middle Egypt, he was also an owever, I can say that there is no underground cave __ hermeticist who would have taken a great interest in the complex at this site.’ knowledge that Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Collins has challenged Hawass to produce the founder of the hermetic tradition, was said to have been scientific report proving that the structure has indeed buried somewhere in the vicinity of either the Great been fully explored in recent years. Pyramid or the Second Pyramid. Interestingly, Hermes He notes: “Our caves are the only natural caves _ Trismegistus—equated with the Egyptian god Thoth— Second Pyramid by the SRI team when they performed their scans of the NEXUS ¢ 49 "We reckon that the caves extend to beneath the Second Pyramid. Chambers were detected under the structure in 1977." DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com