Ben van Kerkwyk

Which is like, it's this weird dichotomy.

It's like on the public facing, they decry anything Atlantis based, but then on the private side, they seem to be enabling explorations by the ARE.

And in fact, they've been enabling the ARE to do drilling experiments and other things at the Sphinx since the late 1970s.

And there was an expedition.

notorious one that no one ever knew what happened.

It was called the Shore Expedition.

Dr. Joseph Shore, Joseph Jehodo, and then a guy named Boris Saeed were running the Shore Expedition.

And Boris Saeed was a friend of John Anthony West.

He was the executive producer for Mysteries of the Sphinx.

And this happened in like 95 through about 97, 1997.

And they partnered up with Zahi.

He gave them a five-year unlimited permit to do whatever they wanted up at the...

On the Giza Plateau.

And one of the stories that came out of that was a story.

So Boris Saeed, who unfortunately has also passed away since, but he talked about filming Zahi Wa.

He said, well, we got to the back of the Sphinx and he said, you know, we want to make another documentary like the Mysteries of the Sphinx.

And he said, well, what if we open up a tunnel that no one's ever opened up before?

And he's like, that'd be great.

What sort of tunnel?

He said, well, a tunnel under the Sphinx.