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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14516659/Scientists-discovered-vast-city-underneath-Egypts-Giza-pyramids.html
A 'groundbreaking' discovery beneath the Egyptian pyramids has
taken the world by storm.
Researchers from Italy and Scotland claim to have uncovered
'a vast underground city' which stretches more than 6,500
feet directly underneath the Pyramids of Giza, making them
10 times larger than the pyramids themselves.
. . .
Apparently shows up with ground-penetrating radar and/or
similar techniques.
Very interesting ! They'll have to dig down into all
that ASAP.
So, was there a mile-deep MINE complex on the site
well before anybody planted pyramids on top ? We
shall see !
There have been people in that area from WAY WAY back,
but until maybe 3500-BC didn't have much in the way of
obvious tech or metal usage. Things didn't pick up
until the Naqada period ... a bit before the first
Pharonic dynasties.
So who would have dug this alleged complex ? The
Sumerians came much earlier, but there's not much
record suggesting they were into deep mines ... got
most of their metals from today's Turkey.
Of course these MAY not be human excavations, but
natural CAVES, leftovers from when the region got
a lot more rain. The Egyptians may not have even
known they existed. Limestone is common there, and
heavily used for structures, and where you have
limestone you likely also have caves.
Oh wait ... SPACE ALIEN GOLD MINERS !!! :-)
Except all the gold is further south, into Nubia ...
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