“More than a tomb?”

By Scott Hamilton

Are the great pyramids at Giza more than just a tomb for pharaohs? I have often thought that such grand structures were much more than just tombs. Even if the pharaohs were considered gods by their people, it seems a stretch for me that their tombs would be so large. There have been debates over several hundreds of years about this very topic and I have even written a few past articles on the topic. The speculation about the pyramids takes a wide range of possibilities, from being built by aliens to providing power to a high-tech ancient city. Recent discoveries published during the last week are pointing towards an even more important reason for the pyramids.

It was recently announced that a group utilizing satellite based radar units have discovered massive structures beneath the pyramids at Giza. The study was focused primarily on the Khafre Pyramid. The scans revealed very detailed imagery of eight vertically aligned cylindrical structures arranged in two parallel rows running from north to south beneath the pyramid. The shafts descend to a depth of greater than 2,100 feet to a platform immediately above an underground water system, with further belief that additional underground pathways reach below the waterways.

Corando Malanga, from Italy’s University of Pisa, said, “When we magnify the images [in the future], we will reveal that beneath it lies what can only be described as a true underground city.”

Malanga also believes that it is possible that the chambers below these tube-like structures likely contain the fabled Hall of Records, which have vast amounts of information about the long lost civilization. Professor of Archaeology Lawerence Conyers, a radar expert at the University of Denver, claims that it is not possible for the technology to penetrate that deeply into the ground, making the idea of an underground city “a huge exaggeration.”

I am not sure what to believe, considering that there have been multiple discoveries in the last several years suggesting technology existed during the building of the pyramids that we have long since forgotten. Having looked at the images generated from the initial study, they remind me of large coils, much like Nikola Tesla used in his electrical transmission experiments, only at a much larger scale. The radar scans can only guess at the material used in the structures and their best guess is granite pillars, with the spirals down the outer edge being spiral passageways allowing access to the chamber at the lower end of the tubes. However, if these spirals or the shafts themselves are made of an electrically conductive material, they could be amplifying the radar signals, allowing it to penetrate much further below the surface.

Taking these things into consideration and knowing that the ancient Egyptians had battery technologies, it makes me wonder if these structures served two purposes, one being a solid foundation for keeping the massive weight of the pyramids from settling in the desert landscape and the second being a method of power generation. We already know that the earth has a magnetic field that runs north to south; it is how a compass works. The needle on a compass aligns with the north-south lines of the Earth’s magnetic field. We also know that magnetic fields generate electrical currents in conductive materials that are run perpendicular to a magnetic field. These tube-like structures are in the exact configuration necessary for Earth’s magnetic field to generate an electrical current, if they are, in fact, conductive materials.

I have done some simple experiments in capturing Earth’s magnetic field for power generation and working above the surface, where the magnetic field is weaker, you can generate a low current electrical field by suspending two wires 30 feet in the air and about five feet apart capable of charging a 12-volt battery. If my theory is correct, these tubular structures beneath the pyramids, in the sizes they specify, would have been enough to generate significant amounts of power. So it really makes me wonder if the pyramids were ancient power plants using Earth’s magnetic field to generate electricity. A secondary theory is that the shafts are geothermal wells, utilized to capture heat from deep within the Earth.

We are just beginning to harness geothermal energy today through the use of wells, which are drilled to depths of only a few hundred feet and are used to heat homes. Recent experimentation is being done in building geothermal power plants, where wells drilled between one- and two-miles deep generate significant heat for running steam powered plants to generate electricity. To me it is interesting that our geothermal power plants’ well depths are 3280 feet, and the claims on this research is that we are seeing cylindrical structures 2000 feet or more beneath the pyramids. It seems to suggest that they exist for a similar purpose. Is it possible we are just rediscovering the same technology our ancient ancestors used? Until next week, stay safe and learn something new.

Scott Hamilton is an Expert in Emerging Technologies at ATOS and can be reached with questions and comments via email to sh*******@**********rd.org or through his website at https://www.techshepherd.org.