Edgar Cayce Team Finds Ancient Passageways –
Underground Caves Beneath the Pyramids
This exciting new discovery actually began in 2002 when the British Museum needed to relocate its library
and archives of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. During the move, memoirs of Henry Salt,
British Consul General in Egypt from 1816 until his death in 1827, were rediscovered. Some extracts had
been published in the early 1800s, but it was only when the British Museum reproduced the complete work
in The Sphinx Revealed, A Forgotten Record of Pioneering Excavations that Salt’s amazing exploration of
catacombs under the Giza Plateau were fully understood. Salt, in the company of Italian anthropologist
Giovanni Caviglia, with whom he worked, conducted these underground explorations in 1816-17. Salt wrote
in his journal that the underground passageways stretched beneath the plateau for at least several hundred
yards and connected to four hewn chambers, from which emerged various “labyrinth- ick” passages.
One possible entrance to these catacombs is a rock-cut tomb in the plateau’s northern cliff-face, west of the
Great Pyramid. In 1837, Sir Howard Vyse and engineer John Shae Perring investigated this entrance. It is
this entrance that has been rediscovered by British explorer and author Andrew Collins.
Collins, funded by the Edgar Cayce Center’s Archeological Research Fund, and his team consisting of British
Egyptological researcher Nigel Skinner Simpson and Collins’s wife Sue, found the entrance and managed to
enter the massive cave system and journey 328 feet into the system under the plateau.
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Andrew Collins examines the entrance of a cave,
which experts say may not have been
discovered or
explored in modern times. |
We know the ancient Egyptians dug underground passageways and chambers in the bedrock of the plateau.
In 1998, Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, discovered and
explored a shaft along the causeway from the Sphinx to the second pyramid (Khafre) that descended 95 feet
into the limestone bedrock of the plateau. Inside this intricately chiseled shaft were two chambers at
different depths, each holding a beautiful sarcophagus. The deepest one was dedicated to the Egyptian god
Osiris. Dr. Hawass believes these chambers and sarcophagi were used in religious ceremonies, not as burial
tombs. A.R.E. researchers agree and add that all the pyramids in Egypt and their sarcophagi were devices
for experiencing the essence of death for enhanced spiritual and mental awareness of life beyond death.
None of the pyramids were tombs. This is supported by the interesting but often ignored fact that no
mummies were found in any of the major pyramids in all of Egypt. These magnificent structures were not
tombs. They were religious structures for ceremonies and initiations. The tombs of the pharaohs, queens,
and their designers are in the Valleys of the Kings, Queens, and Artisans, across the Nile River from the
enormous Karnak Temple in Luxor, in those mountain valleys on the west bank of the Nile.
Collins hopes that his discovery will eventually lead to finding a passageway to Edgar Cayce’s famous Hall of
Records, which is believed to be beneath the Sphinx. In this chamber are ancient Atlantean records on 30-
some stone tablets written in pre-hieroglyphs that will require translation.
When Dr. Hawass was initially informed of Collins’s discovery, he thought these passageways were the
same ones that Dr. Abbass Mohamed Abbas found in 2006. Dr. Abbas, of the National Research Institute of
Astronomy and Geophysics at Helwan, Egypt, headed a survey of certain designated areas on the plateau in
the vicinity of the Great Pyramid, Second Pyramid, and the Sphinx. His team identified nine sites where the
instrumentation indicated the presence of underground features, such as cavities, tomb shafts, cave tunnels,
and perhaps even hidden chambers. All of these were found in the area from the pyramids to the Sphinx.
Collins’s entrance is behind the pyramids at the Tomb of the Birds.
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Sue Collins delves into the newly
rediscovered cave system. |
The cave entrance is a huge chasm-like chamber, roughly 49 feet long and 49 feet wide! With respiratory
masks and goggles, Collins and his wife Sue entered and moved through the cave system, taking
photographs and video footage. When they reached 328 feet, the passage became a circular tube some 18-
24 inches in diameter. Sue crawled on her hands and knees into the start of the tube. It appeared to
continue and change its direction from the north-south axis of the initial passageway. The existence of this
tube conforms perfectly with Salt and Caviglia’s investigation of the caves as written in their memoirs of
1817, where Salt writes of passing through “rude and craggy vaults, several hundred yards into the rock,
creeping at times on our hands and knees.”
During a recent meeting with Dr. Hawass, he was shown photos of the Collins caves. He was surprised and
said that he was not sure they had ever been discovered or explored by modern researchers. See
accompanying photos.
Collins tells the whole story with photos in his latest book, Beneath the Pyramids , published by 4th
Dimension Press, a new imprint of A.R.E. Press.
Andrew Collins will join the A.R.E.’s annual Ancient Mysteries Conference “Light From the Secret Chambers: New Discoveries in Egypt, Atlantis, and the Cosmos ,” October 8-11, in Virginia Beach (see p.51). His books
Beneath the Pyramids: Egypt’s Greatest Secret Uncovered and The New Circlemakers: Insights into the Crop Circle Mystery (4th Dimension Press) are available now at ARECatalog.com or by calling 1-800-333-
4499.
Reprinted from the Ancient Mysteries Column of Venture Inward magazine, July/August 2009
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