The secret room beneath the base of the Sphinx statue

The secret room beneath the base of the Sphinx statue

One of Egypt's most iconic rock monuments, the Great Sphinx of Giza, stands on the Giza plateau west of the Nile River. Constructed from massive chunks of stone it features intricate chambers and passageways. Underground radar scans have revealed the presence of numerous small natural cavities within and beneath the limestone base vertical shafts and voids beneath the Sphinx statue and its feet. These unexplored and unconfirmed underground chambers detected by GPR Global Radar Research Institute during the 1990s and later including work by a team in 2025 are considered by Egyptian authorities and mainstream archaeologists to be natural geological features

The Sphinx continues to fuel research into the possibility of smaller undiscovered cavities or at most merely inspection shafts or ancient drainage systems linked to the legend of an "archive" a mythical underground library near the Great Sphinx believed to hold Atlantean knowledge. Archaeologists are using various technologies to explore for hidden chambers or passageways large undiscovered rooms that appear to be man-made not natural cracks or structural defects

Presumed to have been built during the 4th Dynasty around 2500 BC. as a monument or guardian of the tomb of Pharaoh Khafre the Sphinx is believed to have been constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khafre. The Sphinx is a symbol of mystery and power in ancient Egyptian civilization. Archaeological artifacts worldwide continue to study the traces and internal structure that may resemble the cavities created beneath the Sphinx statue and its paws beneath the limestone base. There has long been an archaeological belief in tunnels or "secret underground chambers" that may be hidden beneath the Sphinx a concept of underground passages and tunnels that could lead to an underground city.