"We found in them reference to Salt and Caviglia's exploration of the Catacombs and after reconstructing the two men's explorations on the plateau we eventually located the cave entrance." "They'd been catalogued but never studied in depth. "The importance of the memoirs had previously been overlooked,' Collins said. Salt's memoirs were never published, and no one seems to have recorded the caves existence since that time.
The lost caves of giza series#
The story begins in 1817 when Henry Salt, a former British Consul General to Egypt, and Italian explorer Giovanni Caviglia entered a series of what they described as "Catacombs" beneath Giza's famous pyramid field and traveled for a distance of "several hundred yards", before coming upon four large chambers from which went further cave passageways. The pair was the first to explore the system in modern times.
The complex system had been rumored to exist since the construction of the Great Pyramid some 5,000 years ago.Īrmed only with the forgotten memoirs of a nineteenth century British explorer, Collins, working alongside Egyptological researcher Nigel Skinner Simpson, set out to track down the entrance to this forgotten cave system. Posted on: Friday, 14 August 2009, 15:36 CDTīritish history and science writer Andrew Collins claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs - a vast system of caves, chambers and tunnels that had been hidden in the limestone bedrock beneath the pyramid field at Giza. Pharaoh's Underworld Found In Giza Complex
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