Researchers detect second Sphinx beneath Pyramids of Giza

The Giza Pyramids may just be the tip of the iceberg.

Italian researchers say they may have found signs of a Sphinx located beneath the pyramids of Giza, suggesting the existence of a sprawling underground citadel.

Radar engineer Filippo Biondi dropped this alleged historical bombshell during a recent episode of the “Matt Beall Limitless” podcast, the Daily Mail reported.

He said: “There is something very huge that we are measuring” under the Giza Plateau, which includes the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramid of Khafre, the Pyramid of Menkaure and the Great Sphinx.

He and his team said they were tipped off about the supposed underground guardian, explaining that the lines between the pyramids and the known Sphinx also point to a parallel mound beneath which the second feline facsimile supposedly resides — like a cryptic puzzle from an “Indiana Jones” movie.

Satellite images of the Giza Plateau reportedly captured this dune, which the signal processing researcher estimates is about 108 feet tall.

“The first Sphinx lies slightly below the surrounding surface, in a shallow depression, so it is possible that the second Sphinx is hidden beneath this higher mound,” he said.

He noted that this mound was made of hardened sand which would facilitate its existence, rather than impenetrable bedrock.

Biondi said the “precise geometric correlation” between the visible structures and this mysterious dune allowed him to be about 80 percent sure of his theory.

The researcher also referred to the fact that the Dream Stela – a granite slab placed in front of Sphinx Number One – is carved with a pair of mythical cats, suggesting that there was always supposed to be a second sculpture.

His theory implies that the propaganda symbol, constructed by Pharaoh Thutmose IV around 1401 BC – when civilization was at its peak – had a real function to ostensibly justify his divine right to the throne.

The hieroglyphs are said to have described how the Sphinx was a deity who appeared to the young prince Tuthmosis IV as he slept in its shadow, promising him the Egyptian throne in exchange for cleaning the sand that had buried him.

To get to the bottom of it, the team scanned the ground beneath “the first Sphinx, all the pyramids, the conjunction between the Sphinx and the pyramid of Khafre” – the second largest on the Giza Plateau.

He claimed to have found “vertical shafts, horizontal passages” that pointed to an “underground megastructure.” The lowest shaft had tunnels that branched outward, according to the researcher.

These are said to have reflected a network of shafts and passages beneath the Sphinx on the surface, illustrating “incredible symmetry”.

Coincidentally, Biondi is not the only researcher to claim the existence of a second Sphinx. Egyptologist Bassam El Shammaa first discussed this theory more than a decade ago, citing ancient Egyptian documents and mythology describing lightning striking the Sphinx.

He posited that this image could allude to a second monument destroyed after being cursed by a powerful Egyptian god.

In 2021, Egyptian tourism official Reda Abdel Halim told local media that they had not only found a second Sphinx, but it was 246 feet tall, with a 67-foot-tall head and hands extending 50.8 feet, similar to its visible counterpart.

Egypt’s former minister of antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has cast doubt on these theories, arguing that extensive excavations of the area have turned up nothing.

Biondi stressed the need to “study” the “phenomenon” more carefully.

“We are still analyzing the data,” said the engineer, who is currently awaiting permission from Egyptian authorities to dissect the mound.