The iconic Pyramids of Giza are already one of the world’s greatest enigmas.
Last month the mystery deepened when a team of Italian scientists said they found a vast city stretching thousands of feet below the Egyptian structures.
Using ground-penetrating radar, the scientists reportedly detected massive shafts and chambers hidden beneath the Khafre Pyramid.
The controversial research, not yet peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal, has reignited a fringe theory that a now-lost civilization may have had a hand in building or inspiring the pyramids.
Alternate historians like Graham Hancock, a frequent guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast, have long posited that a highly advanced prehistoric society was wiped out by a global cataclysm, possibly caused by a comet impact, around 12,800 years ago.
According to this theory, the resulting floods and chaos erased most traces of this civilization, whose survivors passed down knowledge of astronomy, engineering, and sacred architecture to later cultures — including the ancient Egyptians.
Now, in a new twist, a prominent geologist says there’s geological evidence that Egypt may indeed have experienced catastrophic flooding linked to that very comet event.
The iconic pyramids of Giza are already one of the world’s greatest enigmas. But last month, the mystery deepened when a team of Italian scientists said they found a vast city and network of tunnels stretching thousands of feet below the Egyptian structures
Dr James Kennett, a geologist at the University of California Santa Barbara and a major proponent of the comet-impact hypothesis, told DailyMail.com that a highly advanced Stone Age culture in North America — the Clovis people — mysteriously vanished at the same time the comet is believed to have struck Earth.
‘There is evidence of a major population decline in North America beginning at 12,800 years ago,’ he said.
‘That lasted a few hundred years, and then they started to come back — but as a different culture.’
While Kennett can’t confirm the same impact effects occurred in Egypt, he points to impact evidence found at Abu Hureyra in Syria, which is around 1,000 miles from Giza, as compelling.
If debris struck that region, he said, it could have triggered massive flooding from the Mediterranean Sea and Nile River, potentially engulfing parts of ancient Egypt.
The flood narrative echoes surprisingly well with ancient Egyptian mythology.
Andrew Collins, a researcher of prehistoric civilizations, notes that hieroglyphs on the walls of the Temple of Edfu — some 780 miles south of Giza — reference a devastating flood that wiped out a mysterious civilization referred to as the ‘Eldest Ones.’
According to Collins, the temple’s inscriptions (known as the Edfu Building Texts) describe a ‘sacred domain’ in the Giza region that was destroyed by an ‘enemy serpent’ plunging the world into darkness and submerging the land under a great flood.
The flood narrative echoes surprisingly well with ancient Egyptian mythology. Andrew Collins, a researcher of prehistoric civilizations, notes that hieroglyphs on the walls of the Temple of Edfu reference a devastating flood that wiped out a mysterious civilization
Collins believes the enemy serpent could be a metaphor for a comet due to ancient cultures using the creature to symbolize celestial events.
The serpent in the Edfu Texts is described as a destructive force disrupting the primeval island, sometimes linked to a ‘Great Leap’ or a sudden, chaotic event like.
‘[The text describes] them storing sacred objects in an underground structure called the Underworld of the Soul,’ Collins told DailyMail.com.
‘This I am sure relates to Giza’s cave system and any structures it may contain.’
But last month, the mystery deepened when a team of Italian scientists said they found a vast city and structures stretching thousands of feet below the Khafre pyramid. Picture are enormous shafts with staircases around them
Though Collins’ interpretations are widely rejected by mainstream Egyptologists, he and Hancock argue that the mythical ‘Island of Creation’ mentioned in the texts may symbolize a long-lost civilization at Giza, a sacred homeland destroyed in a cataclysm and later memorialized in myth.
However, mainstream scholars counter that the Edfu inscriptions are symbolic and that there’s no direct reference to Giza itself.
They interpret the texts as mythological, with the surviving gods migrating to Egypt after the flood, not originating there.
Still, Collins insists that the sophistication of ancient cultures like the Gravettian peoples of Russia — who built rectilinear dwellings, wore tailored clothing, and possibly tracked lunar movements as early as 30,000 years ago — suggests that the official timeline of human history may be missing some vital chapters.
‘Just look at the immense sophistication of the Gravettian peoples of Sungir and Kostenki in Russia,’ he said.
Armando Mei (center) and his team, which includes Corrado Malanga (right) and Filippo Biondi (left), took the world by storm last month when they discovered shafts and chambers more than 2,000 feet below the surface.
Researchers believe there are other structures reaching more than 4,000 feet below the surface. The scans captured structures extend along the northern side with a tuning fork shape
The said the technology captured enormous chambers (pictured) in the middle of the shaft
‘As much as 30,000 years ago, they were building rectilinear structures that might well have been aligned to the moon, experimenting with agriculture and wearing tailored clothing. They looked and acted like people living in medieval times.’
He also sites places like Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe in Turkey, dating back to 9600 BCE, as evidence of early post-Ice Age civilizations.
‘By 9600 BCE they were creating the world’s first post ice age civilizations- one that we are only now beginning to recognize as having existed back then,’ he said.
‘So, yes, the idea of a few lost pages of history should never be dismissed.’
The discovery of underground structures at Giza was made by Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, Egyptologist Armando Mei, and Corrado Malanga from Italy’s University of Pisa.
Using radar pulses, the team claims to have mapped more than 4,000 feet of subterranean space — potentially rewriting the history of one of the world’s most iconic sites.
Whether their findings will stand up to academic scrutiny remains to be seen. But for now, they’ve reopened an ancient mystery — and fueled the fire behind one of archaeology’s most fascinating and controversial theories.
