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Edgar Cayce Team Finds Ancient Passageways –
Underground Caves Beneath the Pyramids
This exciting new discovery actually began in 2002 when the British Museum needed to relocate its
library and archives of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. During the move, memoirs of Henry Salt, British
Consul General in Egypt from 1816 until his death in 1827, were rediscovered. Some extracts had been published in
the early 1800s, but it was only when the British Museum reproduced the complete work in The Sphinx
Revealed, A Forgotten Record of Pioneering Excavations that Salt’s amazing exploration of catacombs under the
Giza Plateau were fully understood. Salt, in the company of Italian anthropologist Giovanni Caviglia, with whom he
worked, conducted these underground explorations in 1816-17. Salt wrote in his journal that the underground
passageways stretched beneath the plateau for at least several hundred yards and connected to four hewn chambers,
from which emerged various “labyrinth- ick” passages.
One possible entrance to these catacombs is a rock-cut tomb in the plateau’s northern cliff-face,
west of the Great Pyramid. In 1837, Sir Howard Vyse and engineer John Shae Perring investigated this entrance. It
is this entrance that has been rediscovered by British explorer and author Andrew Collins.
Collins, funded by the Edgar Cayce Center’s Archeological Research Fund, and his team consisting
of British Egyptological researcher Nigel Skinner Simpson and Collins’s wife Sue, found the entrance and managed to
enter the massive cave system and journey 328 feet into the system under the plateau.
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