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Titolo: Tunnel sotto la piana di Giza

Ecco la notizia:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/13/caves-giza.html
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Caves at Giza | Discovery News Video
Aug. 13, 2009 -- An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies 
hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who 
claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.
Populated by bats and venomous spiders, the underground complex was found in 
the limestone bedrock beneath the pyramid field at Giza.
"There is untouched archaeology down there, as well as a delicate ecosystem 
that includes colonies of bats and a species of spider which we have 
tentatively identified as the white widow," British explorer Andrew Collins 
said.
Collins, who will detail his findings in the book "Beneath the Pyramids" to 
be published in September, tracked down the entrance to the mysterious 
underworld after reading the forgotten memoirs of a 19th century diplomat 
and explorer.
"In his memoirs, British consul general Henry Salt recounts how he 
investigated an underground system of 'catacombs' at Giza in 1817 in the 
company of Italian explorer Giovanni Caviglia," Collins said.
The document records that the two explored the caves for a distance of 
"several hundred yards," coming upon four large chambers from which 
stretched further cave passageways.
With the help of British Egyptologist Nigel Skinner-Simpson, Collins 
reconstructed Salt's exploration on the plateau, eventually locating the 
entrance to the lost catacombs in an apparently unrecorded tomb west of the 
Great Pyramid.
Indeed, the tomb featured a crack in the rock, which led into a massive 
natural cave.
"We explored the caves before the air became too thin to continue. They are 
highly dangerous, with unseen pits and hollows, colonies of bats and 
venomous spiders," said Collins.
According to Collins, the caves -- which are tens of thousands, if not 
hundreds of thousands of years old -- may have both inspired the development 
of the pyramid field and the ancient Egyptian's belief in an underworld.
"Ancient funerary texts clearly allude to the existence of a subterranean 
world in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids," Collins told Discovery News.
Indeed, Giza was known anciently as Rostau, meaning the "mouth of the 
passages."
This is the same name as a region of the ancient Egyptian underworld known 
as the Duat.
"The 'mouth of the passages' is unquestionably a reference to the entrance 
to a subterranean cave world, one long rumored to exist beneath the 
plateau," Collins told Discovery News.
Collins' claim is expected to cause a stir in the Egyptological world.
Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has dismissed 
the discovery.
"There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We know everything about 
the plateau," he stated.
But Collins remarks that after extensive research, he found no mention of 
the caves in modern times.
"To the best of our knowledge nothing has ever been written or recorded 
about these caves since Salt�?Ts explorations. If Hawass does have any 
report related to these caves, we have yet to see it," Collins said. 

 the plateau," he stated.
etteppareva...
Ma � mai possibile che di fronte ad affermazioni non ci siano, da ambo le 
parti, delle PROVE concrete e un po' di buon senso.


Eccola in italiano:
L’esploratore britannico Andrew Collins ha annunciato di aver trovato
un enorme complesso di grotte, camere e tunnel nel sostrato di calcare
sotto le piramidi di Giza.Collins, che pubblicherà dettagliatamente le
sue scoperte nel libro “Beneath the Pyramids”, è venuto a conoscenza
di questo mondo intatto dopo aver letto delle memorie dimenticate di
Henry Salt, un diplomatico ed esploratore britannico che nel 1817
scoprì insieme all’esploratore Giovanni Caviglia un sistema di
“catacombe”.Il loro resoconto riporta che i due attraversando le
grotte per parecchie centinaia di metri, arrivarono a quattro grandi
camere dalle quali si estendevano altri passaggi nelle caverne.
Con l’aiuto dell’egittologo Nigel Skinner-Simpson, Collins ha
ricostruito il percorso di Salt, riuscendo a localizzare l’ingresso
delle catacombe perdute: una tomba apparentemente non registrata a
ovest della Grande piramide, che in effetti presenta una fenditura
nella roccia.E lì comincia il viaggio: “Abbiamo esplorato le caverne
prima che l’aria diventasse troppo rarefatta per continuare. Ci sono
molti pericoli, buche nascoste, colonie di pipistrelli e ragni
velenosi”, dice Collins.
Per lui, le – vecchissime – grotte potrebbero aver influito sullo
sviluppo delle piramidi e sulla credenza dell’aldilà degli Egizi: “Gli
antichi testi funebri alludono chiaramente all’esistenza di un mondo
sotterraneo nelle vicinanze di Giza”.Giza era infatti nota come Rostau
(o Rose-Tau), “l’entrata dei passaggi”, lo stesso nome di una regione
dell’antico oltretomba egizio: Duat.Tuttavia, Zahi Hawass scarta il
tutto: “Non ci sono nuove scoperte da fare a Giza. Sappiamo tutto
sull’altopiano”.
Nico


Eccola in italiano:
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Tuttavia, Zahi Hawass scarta il
tutto: ......Sappiamo tutto
sullï¿½altopianoï¿½.
****Ecco il malefico fantasma della Hack!!!.... grrr....
-- 
Antonio Bruno
http://chrysigon.spazioblog.it/
http://www.ibs.it/code/9788889898499/bruno-antonio/ali-infangate-mia.html

 "We explored the caves before the air became too thin to continue. 
Sara' anche un esperto di misteri archeologici, ma a me uno che scrive 
'sta roba appare come uno che la vuol dare a bere...