New Radar Scan Reveals a Hidden City Beneath the Pyramids

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Get this — a new radar scan just revealed an entire hidden city buried beneath the pyramids! Scientists used super advanced tech to peek under the surface without even digging. What they found is a massive network of buildings, streets, and structures that have been lost for thousands of years. It’s like discovering a secret world hiding right under one of the most famous places on Earth. This could totally change what we know about how ancient Egyptians lived and built their amazing cities. There’s still so much to uncover, and it feels like we’re just getting started!  Animation is created by Bright Side.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV  Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Our Social Media:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightplanet/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en   Stock materials (photos, footages and other):  https://www.depositphotos.com  https://www.shutterstock.com  https://www.eastnews.ru  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.

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00:00Wow! Scientists have found a lost city beneath Egypt's pyramids.

00:05And it's incredibly large, bigger than the biggest target you can imagine.

00:09Underground chambers, passageways, and vertical structures.

00:13Scientists have no idea what purposes they serve.

00:16But let's start from the very beginning.

00:19Italian and Scottish scientists studying the Pyramid of Khafre

00:22discovered something that looked like secret tunnels under three pyramids.

00:26This find might change what we know about ancient Egypt.

00:30The expedition, called the Khafre Project,

00:32was led by Corundo Malunga from Pisa, Italy,

00:35and Filippo Biondi from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

00:39Their mission was to focus on exploring Khafre's pyramid,

00:43the second largest on the Giza Plateau.

00:46Scientists uncovered a massive structure beneath the Pyramid of Khafre.

00:50Could it be an ancient Egyptian underground city?

00:53The experts analyzed the data they had and came to the conclusion

00:57that eight large, vertical structures could be hiding beneath, possibly wells or shafts.

01:03They extend a staggering 6,500 feet across.

01:08Imagine placing two and a half Burj Khalifa's on the ground,

01:11one after another, and you get the sheer size of this find.

01:15These shafts also plunge nearly 2,000 feet underground.

01:18Some of the deepest underground stations in the world

01:21are located at a mere 380 feet underground or so.

01:25These cylindrical shafts are surrounded by spiral paths.

01:29Picture some old Gothic castle.

01:31They're connected to two giant, weirdly-shaped chambers.

01:34Are those cubes?

01:35Or possibly bowls?

01:37Each of these chambers is likely more than 260 feet across.

01:41Now, even though we know about the structures now,

01:44no one has figured out their original purpose yet.

01:47Want to hear something even more shocking?

01:49Okay, then.

01:50The team is almost sure that similar access points

01:54can be found under all three pyramids.

01:56In other words, all of them might be linked

01:59by a hidden system of underground tunnels, chambers, and passages.

02:03Even deeper, about 4,000 feet under the surface,

02:06there might be more unknown structures.

02:08And doesn't it add to the mystery?

02:11But the coolest news is that, according to some team members,

02:14these hidden structures near Giza pyramids

02:16could align with the legendary Halls of Amenti.

02:20In ancient Egyptian mythology,

02:22it's a place where people are believed to arrive

02:24when they're close to the end of their days.

02:26There, they are said to take a three-day-long trial,

02:30facing their biggest fears.

02:32Now, how did scientists even discover these hidden spaces?

02:35To uncover them, researchers used two satellites

02:39positioned 420 miles above Earth.

02:41They sent radar signals to the Giza Plateau,

02:44and these signals generated detailed images,

02:47which were later compiled into a 3D model

02:49of the underground layout,

02:51including the newly detected shafts.

02:54Then, using synthetic aperture radar, or SAR technology,

02:58which is a type of radar that can penetrate through stone,

03:00the team also spotted five small room-like structures

03:04hidden deep within the pyramid.

03:07One of these chambers contained a sarcophagus,

03:10which was once thought to be the tomb of Pharaoh Khafre.

03:13But now, scientists believe this was a mistake.

03:16The true burial site is likely to be elsewhere.

03:19In any case, these five hidden rooms

03:21were completely unknown before the scans.

03:24They seem to be arranged in the center of the pyramid

03:26and are linked to underground pathways

03:29leading somewhere below the structure.

03:31There's an opinion that these tunnels

03:33could lead to more hidden chambers and wells.

03:36Some of them might be around 4,500 years old.

03:39Wow, what if they help us solve

03:41ancient civilization mysteries?

03:43Preliminary data suggests that all this underground space

03:46can be much more than a few empty chambers.

03:50There might be many more hidden structures

03:52near the Giza pyramids.

03:54How come?

03:54Well, the thing is,

03:56the structure appears to include hollowed-out sections

03:59with spiral pathways leading even deeper underground.

04:03Refining the images hinting at this

04:05could reveal an extensive subterranean network.

04:09It might be a whole city hidden under the surface.

04:12Now, despite the excitement surrounding these findings,

04:15there are also a lot of people

04:17who don't believe in the existence of the underground city.

04:20They're skeptical about the archaeological discovery in Egypt

04:23due to the lack of peer-reviewed verification.

04:26That's why several archaeologists and radar experts

04:29have challenged the validity of the claims.

04:32They've explained that the technology used to make the discovery

04:35may not be advanced enough

04:37to produce such detailed underground imagery.

04:41According to them,

04:42the five smaller chambers found near the surface

04:44could be natural formations,

04:46since the area had had sacred significance

04:49long before the construction of the pyramids.

04:52Some experts have even dismissed the use of radar methods

04:55in this context altogether.

04:57They call these methods scientifically unproven

05:00and question their accuracy.

05:02The discovery has also reignited discussions

05:05about ancient Egyptian myths

05:07and the possibility of hidden texts

05:09lying somewhere beneath the Giza pyramids.

05:11The layout of the newly detected underground chambers

05:15shares similarities with mythological accounts

05:18of the Hall of Records,

05:19a rumored chamber that could preserve early Egyptian wisdom.

05:23If confirmed,

05:24these findings could significantly reshape

05:27the understanding of Egypt's sacred topography.

05:30Plus, this lost city beneath Egypt's pyramid

05:33could become physical evidence

05:35of previously unknown underground structures.

05:38That's why the Khafra project is super eager

05:41to begin excavating to confirm their findings.

05:44But getting approval from Egyptian authorities

05:47is a challenging process.

05:49The discoveries still need to undergo peer review

05:52before they are accepted by the academic community.

05:56By the way,

05:57this recent archaeological discovery in Egypt

05:59comes on the heels of another discovery

06:02involving a weird structure

06:04beneath the Royal Giza Cemetery,

06:05which researchers believe is unnatural in origin.

06:11Archaeologists use remote sensing techniques

06:13and uncovered a mysterious L-shaped structure

06:16underground in the Western Cemetery of Giza.

06:19This area is known to house burials

06:21of royal family members and high-ranking officials.

06:25Many of the tombs in the cemetery

06:26have above-ground mastibos,

06:29rectangular stone or mud-brick structures

06:31with flat roofs.

06:32But there is an area in the center of the cemetery

06:35where there are no above-ground structures.

06:38To investigate this unexplored region,

06:40the team used electrical resistive tomography

06:43and ground-penetrating radar.

06:46ERT works by sending electrical currents into the ground

06:49and measuring the resistance to detect remains.

06:52As for GPR,

06:54it sends radar into the ground

06:55and maps the structures based on the radar's return.

06:59The team found an anomaly

07:01about 6.5 feet beneath the surface.

07:03It appeared to be an L-shaped structure

07:06measuring at least 33 feet in length.

07:09The reading suggested that the structure

07:11had been backfilled with sand after its construction.

07:14This made the team hypothesize

07:16that it could be a mix of sand and gravel

07:19or possibly an air void.

07:21This anomaly was classified

07:23as a highly resistive structure,

07:25which meant it didn't occur naturally.

07:28Motoyuki Sato,

07:29the study's lead author

07:30and professor at Tohoku University in Japan,

07:33claims that the structure

07:35is not a natural formation

07:36due to its sharp shape.

07:39Another weird thing

07:40about ancient Egyptian pyramids

07:42is that historians have long believed

07:44that they were built primarily

07:45for royals and high-status individuals,

07:48who had the wealth and power

07:49to create such massive structures.

07:52However,

07:53new research from the archaeological side of Tombos

07:56in modern-day Sudan

07:57challenges this assumption.

08:00The thing is,

08:01Tombos' pyramid

08:02may have served as burial sites

08:04for low-status workers

08:05as well as elites.

08:07The hard-working members

08:08of ancient communities

08:09may have found

08:10their last resting place

08:11in some of the most visible monuments,

08:14including the pyramids.

08:16Located along the Nile River

08:17in the ancient region of Nubia,

08:19Tombos became part of Egypt

08:21after its conquest of the area

08:23around 1400 BCE.

08:25That's when Egypt established the site

08:28to strengthen its colonial control.

08:30Workers at Tombos built pyramids,

08:33but those were much more modest

08:34than the famous pyramids of Giza.

08:36The research team reanalyzed

08:38110 human skeletons from Tombos,

08:41originally studied in 2012.

08:44In particular,

08:45they examined the emphases,

08:47the areas where tendons and ligaments

08:49attach to bones.

08:50Such an analysis can give us insights

08:52into the amount of physical labor

08:54a person performed.

08:56When someone does hard labor,

08:58their bones often develop

08:59distinct crests and ridges

09:01at these attachment points

09:02due to the stress

09:03on the tendons and ligaments.

09:05And while some skeletons

09:06showed little change

09:08in their emphases,

09:09suggesting they belong

09:10to individuals from the upper classes,

09:13others showed more serious changes.

09:15It means they belong

09:17to lower-class workers.

09:18This finding can totally challenge

09:20our earlier understanding

09:22of pyramid burials,

09:23especially the idea

09:24that only elites

09:25were buried in the pyramids,

09:27because the pyramids themselves

09:29were designed for the elite.

09:30This recent research

09:32may prove that lower-class workers

09:34may have found

09:34their final resting place

09:36in these monumental structures too.

09:38That's it for today.

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