When Dr. Hawass was initially informed of Collins’s discovery, he thought these passageways were the same ones that Dr. Abbass Mohamed Abbas found in 2006. Dr. Abbas, of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics at Helwan, Egypt, headed a survey of certain designated areas on the plateau in the vicinity of the Great Pyramid, Second Pyramid, and the Sphinx. His team identified nine sites where the instrumentation indicated the presence of underground features, such as cavities, tomb shafts, cave tunnels, and perhaps even hidden chambers. All of these were found in the area from the pyramids to the Sphinx. Collins’s entrance is behind the pyramids at the Tomb of the Birds.

Sue Collins delves into the newly rediscovered cave system.

The cave entrance is a huge chasm-like chamber, roughly 49 feet long and 49 feet wide! With respiratory masks and goggles, Collins and his wife Sue entered and moved through the cave system, taking photographs and video footage. When they reached 328 feet, the passage became a circular tube some 18- 24 inches in diameter. Sue crawled on her hands and knees into the start of the tube. It appeared to continue and change its direction from the north-south axis of the initial passageway. The existence of this tube conforms perfectly with Salt and Caviglia’s investigation of the caves as written in their memoirs of 1817, where Salt writes of passing through “rude and craggy vaults, several hundred yards into the rock, creeping at times on our hands and knees.”

During a recent meeting with Dr. Hawass, he was shown photos of the Collins caves. He was surprised and said that he was not sure they had ever been discovered or explored by modern researchers. See accompanying photos.

Collins tells the whole story with photos in his latest book, Beneath the Pyramids , published by 4th Dimension Press, a new imprint of A.R.E. Press.

Andrew Collins will join the A.R.E.’s annual Ancient Mysteries Conference “Light From the Secret Chambers: New Discoveries in Egypt, Atlantis, and the Cosmos ,” October 8-11, in Virginia Beach (see p.51). His books Beneath the Pyramids: Egypt’s Greatest Secret Uncovered  and The New Circlemakers: Insights into the Crop Circle Mystery  (4th Dimension Press) are available now at ARECatalog.com or by calling 1-800-333- 4499

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