New satellite data reportedly backs up claims of huge structures situated deep beneath Egypt’s Giza Plateau.Back in March, an international team of scientists claimed to have discovered evidence of structures descending 6,000ft beneath Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza.
The discovery, which was made by researchers from Scotland’s University of Strathclyde and Italy’s University of Pisa, involved using radar pulses to create high-resolution images of the subsurface.
Describing their find as “groundbreaking”, the team reportedly discovered eight vertical cylindrical structures extending 2,100 feet beneath the ground and even more unidentified structures descending a further 4,000 feet below that.
The alleged discovery was met with an understandable amount of skepticism, with various researchers, archaeologists and Egyptian antiquities ministry officials playing down the claims.
Now, though, Filippo Biondi – the radar engineer who developed this specific imaging method (known as synthetic aperture radar Doppler tomography) – has maintained in an interview that four independent satellite operators have provided identical tomography data, leaving (according to him) little room for doubt with regard to the discovery.
“The pyramids are the tip of the iceberg,” he said.
“It’s just a hat to complete something that is located underneath. The substance is below.”
As before, however, it is going to take some seriously compelling proof to convince the archaeological community that this alleged ‘hidden city’ is really there beneath the Giza Pyramids.
If true, it would be one of the biggest discoveries in centuries.
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