[NoraSpinnor]

For more than two thousand years, ancient writers insisted that Egypt possessed a structure so vast and intricate that it rivaled, and in some accounts surpassed, the pyramids of Giza. They called it the Great Labyrinth.

Herodotus (a Greek historian writing in the 5th century BCE) claimed to have personally seen the labyrinth. He described twelve great courts and roughly three thousand rooms, divided between upper and lower levels. He was barred from entering the subterranean portion, yet priests told him it contained vast underground halls.

Strabo (a Greek geographer and travel writer from the Roman era) echoed this description centuries later. He emphasized how confusing and disorienting the layout was, noting that no one could enter or exit the courts without a guide because of the twisting interconnected passages.

Diodorus Siculus (a Greek historian from Sicily) wrote that the famous Cretan maze associated with King Minos was merely an imitation of the Egyptian original, and that in his own time the Egyptian labyrinth still remained intact.

Pliny the Elder (a Roman author and encyclopedist) added another striking detail. He claimed the labyrinth was already thousands of years old in his era, possibly predating dynastic Egypt, and marveled at how its stonework had resisted destruction across immense spans of time.

Modern archaeology began chasing this mystery in earnest during the 19th century.

French scholars working under Napoleon documented ruins near the pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara and proposed this was the long-sought site. Later explorers and Egyptologists, including Karl Richard Lepsius, found extensive brick and stone remains in the area.

The most important work came from William Flinders Petrie in 1888. Petrie determined that many visible brick structures were from a later Greco-Roman settlement. Beneath them, however, he uncovered a massive limestone platform and quarry debris. The platform measured roughly 1,000 by 800 feet, closely matching the scale implied by ancient sources.
Petrie concluded that the superstructure of the labyrinth had been quarried away in antiquity, leaving only its foundations. For over a century, this explanation became the standard view.

Recent technology has reopened the question.

In 2008, the Matahar Expedition, led by Belgian researcher Louis Decordier in cooperation with Egypt’s National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, conducted ground-penetrating radar surveys at Hawara. Their scans reportedly detected regular, geometric patterns consistent with walls, chambers, and large rooms buried 8 to 12 meters below the surface.

Even more intriguing, some readings suggested that what Petrie believed to be foundations might actually be the roof of a deeper level, with open space and structures still preserved below.

According to Decordier, the team was later prevented from continuing work or publicly advancing the findings while awaiting approval from Egypt’s antiquities authorities, then headed by Zahi Hawass. The data has remained in a gray zone of partial disclosure ever since.

Additional analysis has come from Merlin Burrows, a UK-based remote sensing company, working with satellite imaging specialist Tim Akers. Using multispectral satellite data, they report anomalies suggesting multiple stacked underground levels beneath Hawara, possibly four or five layers deep.

One anomaly stands out: a large object roughly 40 meters long with a strong metallic signature, nicknamed “Dippy.” Its shape has been compared to a tic-tac-like capsule, unlike known Egyptian architectural features. The nature of this object remains unknown.

The scans also indicate that while shallow layers are waterlogged, deeper chambers may be dry and sealed, raising the possibility that inscriptions, reliefs, or artifacts could still survive intact.

Further excavation needs to be done with the mindset that civilization may be much older than currently assumed. If ancient sources are correct, this labyrinth predates dynastic Egypt, challenging the timeline of conventional archeology, but well within the framework of alternative theorists like Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock.

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[Esther]

Never heard of this before, super cool

[AmyStrange]

Rly hope they excavate this!!

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