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0:00For more than 2,000 years, one of the
0:02most extraordinary buildings ever
0:04described in the ancient world has
0:06remained almost completely hidden
0:08beneath the sands of Egypt. At Hawara,
0:11near the entrance to the Fayum Oasis,
0:13>> [music]
0:13>> ancient writers described an enormous
0:15structure so complicated and impressive
0:18that even the pyramid seemed less
0:20astonishing by comparison.
0:22Something enormous may be buried beneath
0:24the Egyptian [music] desert, and after
0:26years of rumors, scans, and
0:28controversial claims, archaeologists
0:31have finally [music] begun digging
0:32toward it.
0:33Beneath the visible ruins of Hawara,
0:36>> [music]
0:36>> researchers have reported scans of
0:37massive walls, geometric chambers,
0:40possible underground levels, and an
0:42enormous central space hidden far below
0:44the surface.
0:46At the center of the most controversial
0:48interpretation is something even
0:50stranger.
0:51A free-standing anomaly approximately 40
0:53m or 130 ft long, described as having an
0:57unusual metallic signature and a shape
1:00that some have compared to a gigantic
1:02Tic Tac.
1:03If even a fraction of these claims is
1:05[music] correct, what lies beneath
1:07Hawara may be far larger and far
1:09stranger than the ruined Egyptian temple
1:11visible today.
1:14The story leading to this moment begins
1:17more than a century earlier.
1:19During the late 19th century, British
1:21archaeologist Flinders Petrie excavated
1:24beside the pyramid of Pharaoh Amenemhat
1:26III at Hawara, near the Fayum Oasis.
1:31He discovered an extraordinary burial
1:32chamber deep beneath the pyramid,
1:35constructed from a single enormous block
1:36of polished yellow quartzite [music]
1:38weighing approximately 110 tons.
1:42Above it were three massive quartzite
1:44roof slabs, some weighing around 45
1:46tons, with additional layers of masonry
1:49designed to protect the chamber from the
1:51immense weight of the pyramid.
1:53Petrie reached and examined this
1:55remarkable structure in the late 19th
1:57century, even describing how its
1:59polished surfaces reflected the light of
2:01his candle.
2:03But groundwater at Hawara continued to
2:05rise dramatically during the following
2:07century, eventually flooding the
2:09pyramid's deepest passages and chambers.
2:12Today, [music] the extraordinary
2:13underground chamber Petrie explored is
2:15effectively inaccessible,
2:16>> [music]
2:17>> hidden beneath the pyramid and submerged
2:19in darkness and water, and there are no
2:21images or videos from it.
2:25South of the pyramid, he encountered the
2:27remains of an immense building whose
2:29stone had been almost completely
2:30stripped away in antiquity.
2:33What survived appeared to be little more
2:35than an enormous foundation field
2:37covered by later construction and
2:38debris.
2:40Petrie believed he had located the
2:42famous Egyptian Labyrinth, but there
2:44seemed to be almost nothing left to
2:45explore.
2:47The monumental building had apparently
2:48been used as a quarry, its blocks
2:51removed generation after generation
2:53until the architecture above ground
2:55disappeared.
2:56>> [music]
2:56>> For more than a century, this became the
2:58basic archaeological explanation for
3:01what happened at Hawara.
3:03The Labyrinth had been found, but the
3:05Labyrinth itself was gone.
3:08But Petrie may have missed one crucial
3:10detail.
3:11The Labyrinth described by the ancient
3:12writers did not exist on a single level.
3:15It continued underground.
3:18What he thought [music] was the
3:19foundation was actually the roof, and
3:21the Labyrinth wasn't destroyed, but was
3:24right under his feet, extending deep
3:25underground.
3:27If deeper chambers existed below the
3:29enormous foundation level,
3:31they could theoretically have survived
3:33the destruction taking place above them.
3:36What looked like the bottom of the
3:37monument might therefore have concealed
3:39another archaeological level.
3:42That possibility remained largely
3:43impossible to test until modern
3:46geophysical techniques allowed
3:48researchers to investigate the ground
3:50without excavating everything above it.
3:53In 2008, an Egyptian-Belgian project
3:56known as the Mataha Expedition, funded
3:59by Belgian researcher Louis de Cordier,
4:02arrived at Hawara to conduct one of the
4:03most important modern investigations of
4:06the suspected labyrinth area.
4:09Their objective was simple. Determine
4:11whether anything substantial remained
4:13beneath the ruins.
4:15What appeared in the measurements was
4:17far more interesting than scattered
4:18archaeological debris.
4:20Very low frequency electromagnetic
4:22surveying detected numerous elongated
4:25and rectangular anomalies beneath the
4:28area south of Amenemhat III's pyramid.
4:31Some appeared separated, while others
4:33seemed to connect into nearly enclosed
4:35geometric spaces.
4:37The researchers interpreted several of
4:39these signals as massive megalithic
4:41vertical walls.
4:43Some of these walls were several meters
4:44thick.
4:45More importantly, [music]
4:47they did not appear as isolated
4:48fragments, but formed patterns that
4:50looked remarkably architectural, just
4:52like a labyrinth.
4:53Rectangular spaces seemed to sit beside
4:56other rectangular spaces, creating
4:58something resembling an enormous
5:00underground grid.
5:01The survey covered only part of the
5:03suspected complex, meaning researchers
5:05could not determine where the pattern
5:07ended and massive this complex was.
5:10Then came the detail that made the
5:11results particularly difficult to
5:13ignore.
5:14Louis de Cordier later recalled being
5:16shown indications that some of the
5:18massive wall-like structures continued
5:20to depths greater than 17 m, or
5:23approximately 56 ft beneath the modern
5:25surface.
5:26That was considerably deeper than the
5:28roughly 5 m or 16-ft foundation level
5:31associated with the remains investigated
5:33by Petrie.
5:35If the interpretation was correct,
5:37something substantial existed beneath
5:39what had long been treated as the
5:41surviving bottom of the ancient
5:42monument.
5:44The implications were enormous.
5:46Petrie may have correctly discovered the
5:48labyrinth while simultaneously
5:50excavating only its destroyed uppermost
5:52remains.
5:54The immense foundation field
5:56>> [music]
5:56>> could conceal walls and chambers
5:58continuing downward beyond the level
6:00reached by 19th century archaeology.
6:03Instead of searching for a building that
6:05had vanished, researchers might have
6:06been standing on top of a building that
6:08had been buried.
6:11Recently Louis de Cordier appeared on
6:13the Danny Jones podcast where he gave
6:15some shocking details on the discoveries
6:17>> [music]
6:18>> and on the fact that Egyptian
6:19authorities have blacklisted him from
6:21ever entering Egypt due to his
6:23discoveries.
6:26He even speculates that the flooding of
6:27the underground chambers is done
6:29intentionally by the authorities to stop
6:32[music] any groundbreaking discoveries.
6:35>> The elements is metallic, so not stone
6:39and and and not wood, so it's
6:41>> Like an object.
6:42>> an object which is huge and from object
6:45is free standing.
6:46It's around 40 m.
6:48>> For sure.
6:49>> be disc-shaped.
6:51Might as well be more exotic like
6:55like a stargate.
6:57And we have no idea how old that is.
7:00Might even go all all the way
7:03for for tens of thousands of years, so
7:06we we we don't have any idea.
7:09>> In 2014
7:11researcher and filmmaker Carmen Boulter
7:13helped organize a satellite-based
7:15scanning project at Hawara searching for
7:17evidence of the legendary underground
7:19labyrinth of Egypt.
7:21The geoscan data revealed a vast network
7:24of enormous chambers and corridors
7:26hidden deep beneath the [music]
7:27archaeological site.
7:30From the scan data, her team produced a
7:32rudimentary three-dimensional
7:34reconstruction showing what they
7:35described as two distinct subterranean
7:38levels with the upper level apparently
7:40affected by ground water while the
7:42deeper level appeared dry.
7:44The project reported dozens of large
7:46underground spaces, including chambers
7:49of extraordinary dimensions, suggesting
7:51that the remains beneath Hawara
7:53could extend much deeper than the levels
7:55investigated by earlier archaeologists.
7:59For several years, however, the story
8:01remained there.
8:03Researchers had intriguing geophysical
8:05anomalies, but no excavation capable of
8:07following them downward.
8:09Then, in 2015, another investigation
8:13produced claims [music]
8:14that went far beyond anything reported
8:16by the Mataha expedition.
8:18This time, the investigation was
8:20associated with Timothy Akers of the
8:22British company Merlin Burrows.
8:25Akers analyzed satellite-derived data
8:27from Hawara and believed he could see
8:29structures far deeper than the earlier
8:31surveys had suggested.
8:33His scans showed enormous geometric
8:35patterns at approximately 80 to even 100
8:38m deep beneath the site.
8:40If those depths represent genuine
8:42architecture, Hawara would not contain
8:44merely a temple with subterranean
8:46chambers. It would contain a monumental
8:49underground environment extending
8:51downward approximately the height of a
8:5230-story building.
8:54The apparent levels were not interpreted
8:56as random structures scattered
8:58independently through the ground.
9:01Akers believed they belonged to a
9:02connected complex organized around an
9:05enormous central region.
9:07Different layers seemed to converge
9:09toward the same location.
9:11And at that location, he believed the
9:13data revealed an immense subterranean
9:15gallery.
9:17According to the interpretation later
9:18circulated by the Archaeological Rescue
9:20Foundation, this central space measured
9:24at least 40 m or 131 ft across and 100 m
9:29or 328 ft long.
9:32Surrounding it appeared additional
9:34chambers and what could potentially
9:36represent several architectural levels.
9:38This would not resemble a narrow
9:40Egyptian tomb consisting of corridors
9:42and small burial chambers. The proposed
9:45central hall alone would be comparable
9:47in length to a modern skyscraper laid
9:50horizontally underground.
9:52Multiple floors or passages may have
9:54overlooked the same enormous interior
9:56space, but Akers believed there was
9:58something inside it.
10:00Near the center of the gallery appeared
10:01a large isolated anomaly.
10:04Akers interpreted it as a free-standing
10:06object approximately 40 m or 130 ft
10:10long. Even stranger, he believed its
10:13material signature differed from the
10:15surrounding stone.
10:16He described it as metallic.
10:19The claim immediately transformed the
10:21Hawara mystery.
10:23Ancient Egyptians worked extensively
10:25with copper, gold, bronze, electrum, and
10:28other materials, so discovering metal at
10:31an Egyptian archaeological site would
10:33normally be unsurprising.
10:35But a metallic structure approximately
10:3740 m long occupying the center of an
10:40enormous underground chamber would be
10:42something completely different. Nothing
10:45presently known from Middle Kingdom
10:47Egypt obviously matches such a
10:49description.
10:51Depending on how the remote sensing
10:53image was interpreted, its form could
10:55resemble a large disc, a ring-like
10:58structure, or something elongated.
11:00Because of its smooth-looking outline,
11:03another comparison inevitably emerged.
11:06Some began describing it as resembling a
11:08gigantic Tic Tac, invoking comparisons
11:11to the declassified US documents and
11:13video footage of Tic Tac shaped UFOs.
11:16To of course, nothing in the Hawara data
11:19demonstrates that the object is a craft
11:21or anything extraterrestrial.
11:24The comparison refers only to the
11:26apparent shape of an unresolved anomaly.
11:29Yet the image is difficult to forget.
11:31Something approximately 130 ft long,
11:34apparently isolated inside a gigantic
11:37chamber far beneath an Egyptian
11:39archaeological site.
11:41If such an object were ever physically
11:43confirmed, determining its purpose would
11:45become one of the most extraordinary
11:47archaeological problems in Egypt.
11:50Could it really be some kind of advanced
11:52ancient technology, or perhaps something
11:54much different?
11:56And could that mean that this gigantic
11:58underground megastructure does not even
12:00belong to the Egyptians,
12:02but to a prehistoric civilization lost
12:05to history?
12:07A civilization far older and far more
12:09advanced than anything we know.
12:13Then came 2026.
12:16By March, excavation was underway in the
12:18labyrinth area.
12:20For the first time since the new remote
12:22sensing controversy began, researchers
12:24were physically removing the
12:25archaeological layers above the
12:27structures.
12:28Photographs released during the
12:30following months showed substantial
12:32masonry emerging from the sand.
12:34By July, project updates were describing
12:36a massive stone wall associated with the
12:38lost labyrinth. The excavation also
12:41began exposing the Middle Kingdom
12:42foundation level of the upper labyrinth
12:45temple.
12:46Later,
12:47>> [music]
12:47>> Greek and Roman occupation had covered
12:49and disturbed portions of the earlier
12:50remains.
12:52Archaeologists are therefore effectively
12:54peeling backward through the history of
12:56Hawara
12:57toward the period when the monumental
12:59complex existed.
13:01Once they establish precisely where the
13:03accepted foundation ends, the most
13:05important question begins.
13:07What is underneath it?
13:10This is where speculation about a
13:11forgotten civilization enters the
13:13mystery.
13:14Could Amenemhat III have built his
13:16monumental complex over something
13:18already ancient? Could Egyptian priests
13:21have inherited underground architecture
13:23whose original builders were already
13:25forgotten?
13:26Could the labyrinth of protected
13:28knowledge accumulated long before the
13:30Middle Kingdom
13:32And strangely, after all the scans, all
13:34the walls,
13:36all the unexplained anomalies and all
13:37the speculation about what could be
13:39buried there,
13:40the most extraordinary part of this
13:42story is that people were describing
13:44this massive structure more than 2,000
13:46years ago.
13:51Long before radar, satellites,
13:53electromagnetic surveying, or modern
13:55archaeology existed,
13:57>> [music]
13:57>> the Greek historian Herodotus traveled
13:59through Egypt during the 5th century BC.
14:03At Hawara, he claimed to have personally
14:05entered an architectural complex so
14:07enormous that he struggled to describe
14:09it.
14:10He wrote that the building contained 12
14:12roofed courts surrounded by monumental
14:14walls and approximately 3,000 chambers.
14:18Half were above ground and the other
14:20half were below. And galleries into
14:23further rooms in a sequence so
14:24astonishing that he considered the
14:26experience greater than anything he had
14:28seen among the famous works of Greece.
14:32Then he made an extraordinary
14:34comparison.
14:35He said the labyrinth was so
14:36extraordinary that it surpassed even the
14:38pyramids.
14:40In his words,
14:41"I saw it myself and I found it greater
14:43than words can say.
14:45For if one should put together all the
14:46buildings and great works produced by
14:48the Greeks,
14:49>> [music]
14:49>> they would prove to be inferior to this
14:51labyrinth. The labyrinth surpasses even
14:54the pyramids."
14:56But Herodotus did not see everything.
14:59Egyptian priests allowed him to explore
15:01the chambers above ground but refused to
15:03take him into the subterranean half,
15:05which were forbidden from entrance.
15:08He even said that there's a large
15:10pyramid underground situated at the end
15:12of the labyrinth.
15:16Centuries [music] later, Strabo
15:18described the labyrinth again.
15:20His account emphasized its bewildering
15:22arrangement of courts and passages.
15:24Moving through it without someone who
15:26knew the route was apparently extremely
15:28difficult.
15:30The building did not behave like a
15:31straightforward temple where a visitor
15:34simply walked from entrance to
15:35sanctuary.
15:36It was an architectural maze. Strabo
15:39also described enormous monolithic
15:41construction. Roofs and passages were
15:44formed using individual stones of
15:46extraordinary size with monumental
15:48sections constructed without timber.
15:51Other ancient authors added more
15:53details.
15:54Diodorus Siculus and Pliny the Elder
15:57preserved traditions of a vast Egyptian
15:59labyrinth filled with courts, temples,
16:02statues, ramps, dark passages, and
16:05chambers.
16:06Some descriptions even mentioned doors
16:08producing terrifying thunder-like sounds
16:10when opened.
16:12Whether those noises resulted from
16:14enormous stone doors, acoustic effects,
16:17ceremonial mechanisms, or some kind of
16:19advanced technology is impossible to
16:22know.
16:23But the consistency of the central claim
16:25is difficult to ignore.
16:28Today Hawara gives almost no indication
16:30of the extraordinary monument that once
16:32dominated this landscape.
16:34The pyramid of Amenemhat III no longer
16:37has the sharp geometric appearance we
16:39associate with the pyramids of Giza
16:42because its outer limestone casing has
16:44disappeared and its exposed mud-brick
16:46core has been heavily eroded.
16:49From a distance, it resembles a dark
16:51weathered mound rising above the flat
16:53desert surrounded by scattered stone
16:56blocks, excavation trenches, sand,
16:59agricultural land, and the nearby canal.
17:02South of the pyramid where the legendary
17:04labyrinth once stood, there is no
17:07gigantic temple visible today, only a
17:09broad archaeological field containing
17:12foundations, fragments of masonry,
17:14rubble, and traces of structures that
17:17are difficult to understand without
17:18seeing an archaeological plan.
17:21But approximately 3,800 years ago, the
17:24same view would have been almost
17:25unrecognizable.
17:27Instead of the crumbling brown mound
17:29visible today, Amenemhat III's pyramid
17:32would have risen approximately 58 m or
17:35190 ft above the complex as a clean
17:39geometric monument.
17:41Its mud brick core completely concealed
17:43beneath smooth blocks of fine white
17:45limestone.
17:47Under the Egyptian sun, the casing would
17:49have made the pyramid appear
17:50dramatically brighter than the exposed
17:53brown structure surviving today.
17:55Around it stretched the largest known
17:57Middle Kingdom pyramid enclosure,
17:59creating an enormous sacred landscape
18:02>> [music]
18:02>> rather than the isolated ruin seen at
18:04Hawara now.
18:06Ancient visitors described a colossal
18:08building at Hawara.
18:10They described countless chambers. They
18:12described confusing passages.
18:14>> [music]
18:14>> They described monumental stone
18:16construction. And most importantly, they
18:19described an underground level.
18:22More than 2,000 years later, modern
18:24instruments began to prove that all of
18:26the stories were true. That is precisely
18:28what makes the excavation now unfolding
18:30at Hawara so important.
18:33After centuries of descriptions,
18:34arguments, scans, and speculation,
18:37researchers finally have an opportunity
18:39to discover how much of the legendary
18:41lost labyrinth is actually still there.
18:46Long before recorded history, there may
18:48have existed advanced ancient
18:50civilizations capable of building
18:52gigantic megalithic structures that
18:54would still challenge us even today.
18:56They appear to have lifted enormous
18:58stone blocks weighing thousands of tons
19:01and stacked them with almost laser-like
19:02precision using methods we still cannot
19:05fully explain.
19:07Many of these blocks remain difficult to
19:09lift even with modern cranes, which
19:11makes their achievement seem even more
19:12extraordinary.
19:14They also shaped some of the hardest
19:15stone on Earth into mathematically
19:17precise and seemingly flawless
19:19monuments, leaving us to wonder who
19:21these builders were and how they
19:22accomplished what appears impossible.
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19:26societies?
19:27Or were they masters of a forgotten
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