Zahi Hawass
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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of pottery in situ to prove that these tunnels were opened on Dynasty 25, 500 BC as in the late period when the Egyptians saw the Sphinx, they thought there is something hidden underneath and they dug and they found nothing. Now we come to the Edgar Cayce and what people believe because we had
John Anthony West, and we had many new age people who believe there is something hidden underneath the Sphinx. And they used to tell me, we need your permission. To what? To drill. I said, how can I let someone who's not an archaeologist, who's not a scientist, to drill? No way. But recently, I found out the rise of the water table in front of the Sphinx.
And I was really afraid that the water could damage the Sphinx. Then I brought a team from Cairo University, and we did drill 30 to 35 feet underneath the Sphinx, everywhere. And I do have photos. of everywhere under the Sphinx. The Sphinx is a solid rock or a living rock, and there is nothing underneath.
No tunnels. Exactly. I told you water is coming.
When Shock said that, okay, we brought through the American Research Center, a scientist from Louisville University. I don't remember his name now. And we gave him what Robert Schock. You know what Robert Schock said? It's not a theory. It's a theory of a new age guy who talked about this before. And John Anton West brought Schock. I don't remember who.
Then we gave this guy from Louisville University, who was an Indian American, who really studied. He came to the Sphinx and he worked with us for a season. And he came and we published many articles that the erosion that you see outside and inside the Sphinx is from wind and not from water. Now, What shock want to say that this is dated back 15,000 years ago? I agree. Okay.
If I came here and I dug the Sphinx, I will leave something. Then what I did, we dug an area northeast of the Sphinx. I found level Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Roman, nothing underneath. In this new age, people say that the head of the Sphinx is very small comparing to the body. Yes, why? If you take all the casing stones away from the Sphinx, you'll find exactly here, the Sphinx.
and now this and another part like this. In between, there is a hollow. Remember, I told you that Giza Plateau is divided to three levels. Level one and two is very bad stones. Can be seen to the chest of the Sphinx. Level three, they carved the head from level three. Then when the Egyptian carved the head to represent the King Kephren,
with the cobra, the royal head Remus, they began to make an alloying body. Then what they did, they filled this hollow.
between the two six pieces with the stones and they covered the whole body of the things was a stones and they did the modeling of the law in body on the covering stones and this why the head is very small comparing so you think the head was made first and then the body was made later exactly that's the case.
The Egyptians wanted to... make a lion body. They couldn't. The only way is to cover the body of stones and do the modeling of the lion body on the covering stones. Can we take two minutes rest? Yeah, sure. Want to take a break? Yes. Okay.
This is not true. It's not true? No. This is a speculation from people who knows nothing. about history. There is nothing King List dated back 30,000 years ago at all. So why do people keep saying that? Because they don't know. It's speculation. Give me one evidence of that. The first King List dated back to Dynasty 5.
This is not true. There is no at all a name that you told me. I never heard of this name. I am an Egyptologist working in Egypt for the last 57 years. I never heard of this king list at all. Never? Never. You never even heard of it? Why I have to hear about it? Because it's not true. I don't want to waste my time in things like this. I am a person. Give me a fact. Tell me, what is this list?
Who said this?
It is not true. It does not exist at all.
Listen, Joel, why do I have to go to a myth of people creating stories?
I don't care about Wikipedia. I understand. I care about what I see in my eyes as an archaeologist or a philologist.
But I mean, I just found it online. It's a new age theory. It's new age? Yes. Listen to me. I know. And any Egyptologist who study Egyptology in the States here, you have universities in UCLA and you have Berkeley and you have John Hopkins and you have everything. There is no every Egyptologist here study languages and archaeology. No one can study. answer what you're talking about.
This is hallucination. I'm sorry. This is not true. It's a speculation from people, but never in Egypt. We know the prehistory of Egypt. We know the pre-dynastic of Egypt. We know the beginning of civilization. We know every there is no gap in anything that can let some things like that and that's why I never heard of it and I don't want to hear about it. You don't want to hear about it? No, why?
Because there is no evidence. I am a scientist. I believe on what's written in front of me and I believe of a scene that I can see, but I don't believe on theories like this. Tell me where it is found and where it is and who published it. What is the scientist who published it? What is the Egyptologist who talked about it?
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