EGYPTIAN UNDERGROUND TEMPLES

EGYPTIAN UNDERGROUND TEMPLES

In Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus, in the first century, wrote that Enoch of Old Testament fame constructed an underground temple consisting of nine chambers. In a deep vault inside one chamber with three vertical colpmns, he placed a triangular-shaped tablet of gold bearing upon it the absolute name of the Deity (God). The description of Enoch's chambers was similar to the description of the Chapel of Offering under the sand just east of the Great Pyramid.
An anteroom much like a burial chamber, but "undoubtedly a room of initiation and reception " was found higher up the plateau closer to the Great Pyramid and at the upper end of a sloping passage, cut deep into rock on the northwest side of the Chamber of Offering (between the Chamber of Offering and the Great Pyramid). In the centre of the chamber is a 12-foot long sarcophagus of white Turah limestone and a collection of fine alabaster vessels.

The walls are beautifully sculpted with scenes, inscriptions and emblems of particularly the lotus flower. The descriptions of alabaster vessels and the emblematic lotus flower have remarkable parallels with what was found in the temple workshop on the summit of Mt Sinai/Horeb by Sir William Petrie in 1904.
Additional underground rooms, chambers, temples and hallways were discovered, some with vertical circular stone support columns, and others with wall carvings of delicate figures of goddesses clothed in beautiful apparel. Dr Selim Hassan's report described other magnificently carved figures and many beautifully coloured friezes. Photographs were taken and one author and researcher who saw them, Rosicrucian H. Spencer Lewis recorded that he was "deeply impressed" with the images.

It is not known where the rare specimens of art and relics are today, but some were rumoured to have been smuggled out of Egypt by private collectors. The foregoing particulars are but a few contained in Dr Selim Hassan's extensive report that was published in 1944 by the Government Press, Cairo, under the title Excavations at Giza (10 volumes). Howevet, that is just a mere fragment of the whole truth of what is under the area of the Pyramids. In the last year of sand clearing, workers uncovered the most amazing discovery that stunned the world and attracted international media coverage.