New Technology Has Discovered Massive Structures Under Ancient Pyramids That Could Change Everything We Know About Human History

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Over the last few years a raging debate has been taking place in just about the last scientific discipline where you'd expect to find resentment, threats, and all around nastiness: Archaeology. 

A school of thought led very publicly by Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson has been floating the hypothesis that ancient civilizations were far more advanced culturally, scientifically and technologically than we give them credit for. According to their theory, the reason for that is because those societies were wiped out in a worldwide cataclysm. And only now are we ourselves  just becoming advanced enough to start uncovering evidence of what they created. 

But even if you don't accept Hancock and Carlson's premise - and according to them, there's been all sorts of brutal backlash directed at them from Big Archaeology, who consider theirs to be junk science - what we've been able to learn recently about the pyramids in Egypt is already incredible. I clumsily shoehorned this into a Knee Jerk Reactions about a Patriots-Dolphins game last fall. Partly because I'm endlessly fascinated by this topic. But more so because over the past few seasons I've run out of creative ways to say my team sucks:

Where do we even begin dissecting this corpse? Let's start 4,600 years ago. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2,600 BC. The only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, it was the highest man-made structure on Earth for its first 3,800 years. It's 481 feet high. Made from 2.3 million blocks, some weighing up to 80 tons, mined from a quarry 500 miles away. It has a lower chamber carved deep into the bedrock 100 feet below, and two upper chambers with massive blocks laid so precisely you can't fit a slip of paper between them. But it's true majesty is in its science. Its base is aligned with the compass directions so perfectly that its northern wall is within 3/60ths of a degree of true north. It's located in the exact center of all the Earth's landmass. And its proportions demonstrate constants such as Pi, the "Golden Ratio" Phi, Euler's number e, sine and cosine, thousands of years before these concepts were thought to be developed. No one can explain how it was built, or be certain it could be done today. And yet in 4,600 years later, with $56 million in cap space to spend, Eliot Wolf couldn't find five offensive linemen who can pass block.

Impressive as all that is, it's merely the first baby steps the human race is taking toward comprehending the ancient mysteries surrounding these structures. Assuming these reports are accurate, a new technology is revolutionizing our knowledge. If so, the pyramids are beyond our wildest imagination. 

Here's an explanation in written  form:

Express Tribune - A stunning new radar study has sent shockwaves across the internet, revealing a vast subterranean complex beneath the Pyramids of Giza—challenging long-held beliefs that the structures were built solely as royal tombs.

Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) tomography, scientists Corrado Malanga of the University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde scanned the Khafre Pyramid and uncovered what appears to be an underground system stretching two kilometers beneath all three major pyramids.

The findings, made public through a scientific paper and a press release issued on March 15, detail five identical multi-level structures connected by geometric passageways near the base of the Khafre Pyramid.

Even more striking were the eight vertical cylindrical wells, encircled by spiral pathways descending 648 meters below the surface. These wells ultimately merge into two massive cube-shaped chambers—each measuring 80 meters on each side.

In graphic form, via a long X thread detailing how planes are able to use Synthetic Aperture Radar to penetrate the walls, reveal five vertical structures within, measure the passageways, and make a model of the underground wells:

Another to give you the scale:

And here, in video form. Narrated by a British woman with a very academic-sounding voice, so you know it's legit:

To repeat what I rambled on about just to make a point about the Pats offensive line, we've never understood how exactly the ancient Egyptians were able to pull off these engineering marvels. Or if we could do so today, using our most modern methods. That was when we only knew what the pyramids look like from the ground-up. Now try and explain how men with shovels, ropes and pulleys were able to put eight cylindrical wells with spiral "pathways" 1.2 miles under the sand. Or, just as importantly, why they'd want to try. 

One reason we should all be able to agree on is that it wasn't for a really elaborate and impressive grave for their pharaohs. The ancient Egyptian equivalent of Elvis' grave inside Graceland. Because no bodies of any kings or queens has ever been found in one. And for sure, there'd be no need to dig down to massive blocks of stone just to let a mummified body turn to Corpse Jerky over the millennia. 

However, you might go to all that bother if, say, Nikola Tesla was right. And these structures were designed to provide limitless energy, as Dante wrote about a while back:

From that same Tribune article:

Inventor Nikola Tesla once speculated that the pyramids might collect and harness Earth’s natural energy. Engineer Christopher Dunn echoed similar ideas in his book The Giza Power Plant, proposing that the Great Pyramid operated as a giant machine capable of converting seismic vibrations into usable energy.

Yes, this is all just speculation. Wild theorizing. Grasping at straws. I'll concede that. But you can't be a sentient being walking this planet and not want to know more. To know as much as our feeble human brains are capable of comprehending. You simply cannot ignore the possibilities of what this could be. Because we might very well be standing on the doorstep of the greatest archaeological discovery of all time. One that will rewrite history and everything we know about our place in this world. 

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got get back to college basketball and hoping the Pats sign some free agents.