Pod Insights The Why Files: Operation Podcast The Lost Labyrinth of Hawara: Evidence of Atlantis in Egypt About this episode In 450 BC, Herodotus described an Egyptian labyrinth so massive it made the pyramids look small. Then it vanished under the desert for 2,000 years. In 2008, scientists used ground-penetrating radar and found it—a massive structure 40 feet underground covering ten football fields. The Egyptian government immediately shut down all research. Satellite imaging later revealed four underground levels and a 130-foot metallic object at the center. The researcher who published his findings was permanently blacklisted. Ancient priests told Herodotus the deepest chambers held burial vaults of the kings who first built the labyrinth—not pharaohs, but whoever came before them. If they're right, Egyptian civilization didn't develop over centuries. It was inherited from something older.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVLrQ0twtDA
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0:31 AJ Gentile? For a thousand years, historians traveled to Egypt to see the famous Labyrinth of Hawara. They said it was so massive, it made the pyramids look small. It covered 3 million square feet, 70 acres of rooms and corridors stacked on multiple levels.
0:47 AJ Gentile? The Egyptian priests allowed visitors on the upper floors, but the chambers below ground were off-limits. They claimed those rooms belonged to the kings who built the labyrinth. Archaeologists say the labyrinth is a myth. But, new technology proves it's still down there. And if the priests were telling the truth, the Egyptians didn't build it, they found it.
1:17 AJ Gentile? Hawara sits at the edge of the Fayum Oasis, about 50 miles south of Cairo. Today, it looks like a pile of rubble in the shadow of the crumbling Black Pyramid. But 4,000 years ago, this place was alive.
1:30 AJ Gentile? And right in the middle of it was a building that made the pyramids look like toys: the labyrinth. Historians wrote about it for 600 years: different eras, different languages, different cultures, but they all described the same thing. Herodotus was there around 450 B.C. The pre-suror and the complex acted as his guides. They walked him through the upper structure. He saw thousands of rooms connected by winding passages. He described it as intricate and confusing, a massive structure designed to overwhelm the senses.
1:59 Speaker 02 Yeah, so it was an Ikea?
2:01 AJ Gentile? No, it was a sacred administrative and religious center, not a furniture store.
2:05 Speaker 02 I don't know, thousands of rooms, no way out, people wandering around crying, throwing some Swedish meatballs, and then that's Ikea.
2:13 AJ Gentile? Herodotus said the construction was beyond human ability.
2:18 Speaker 03 I saw it myself, and I found it greater than words can say. For if one should put together all the buildings and great works produced by the Greeks, they would prove to be inferior to this labyrinth. The labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids.
2:36 AJ Gentile? The upper floor alone was massive, and around the maze of rooms were 12 enormous chambers called courts, each representing one of Egypt's regional governments. And the upper structure was only a small part of the complex.
2:49 AJ Gentile? The priests told Herodotus about the underground chambers but refused to show him. Only priests went below. They said the lower levels held the burial vaults of sacred crocodiles, mummified, wrapped in linen with bronze teeth and eyes made of jewels.
3:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, great. Now the lizard people got bling.
3:09 Speaker 03 There are two kinds of chambers, one below the ground and the other above. Three thousand in number, but the chambers underground we heard about only, for the Egyptians were not willing to show them, saying that here were the kings who first built this labyrinth and of the sacred crocodiles.
3:29 AJ Gentile? Thousands of rooms above and below. That distinction matters. Amedemot III is linked to the labyrinth around 1800 B.C., but the priests implied the original builders came earlier, much earlier.
3:43 AJ Gentile? Four centuries after Herodotus, Roman geographer Strabo wrote that the labyrinth was still there and was still in use. Strabo was just as stunned as Herodotus, but one feature stood out.
3:54 Speaker 03 No stranger can find his way in or out without a guide, but the most marvelous thing is that the roof is made of a single stone with no wood or other material involved.
4:07 AJ Gentile? Strabo saw a roof made of massive stone slabs, no wood, no beams, just millions of tons of rock floating over their heads. Over 100 years later, the labyrinth was still there. Historian Diodoro Siculus wrote about it, so did Pliny the Elder. Everyone knows the legend of the Minotaur, Theseus, and the labyrinth. It's the most famous maze in history. Pliny the Elder said the famous Greek labyrinth was just a cheap copy.
4:33 Speaker 03 There is no doubt that Dedalus adopted it as the model for the labyrinth built by him in Crete, but that he reproduced only a hundredth part of it.
4:41 AJ Gentile? Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, Theodora Siculus, all kinds of historians describe the same thing. Multiple levels, thousands of rooms, and impossible maze. Architecture and construction far beyond anything humans are capable of. And there's another detail every historian agrees on. Nobody is allowed to enter the lower chambers. And for 2,000 years, nobody did. Eventually, the labyrinth was looted and quarried for stone. Archaeologists said there's nothing left of the Hawara labyrinth but rubble and sand, if it existed at all. Boy, were they wrong.
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5:50 AJ Gentile? In 1888, the world's most famous archaeologist arrived at Hawara.
5:56 AJ Gentile? Sir William Matthew Finders Petrie was more than an academic, he was an explorer. He lived in rock tombs, he fought off bandits, and invented the methods archaeologists still use. He came to Hawara to find the tomb of Amenhot III. What he found was a death trap. The pyramid was designed to kill anyone who entered it. Petrie spent months digging into the rock, trying to find an entrance, but every tunnel was a dead end. He realized the pyramid wasn't solid stone. It was mud brick held together by loose sand, and it was unstable. As he dug, the tunnel kept collapsing. Sand poured in like water. At one point, he was crawling through a narrow passage. Suddenly, his shoulders jammed against the stone. He tried to move, he was stuck.
6:36 Speaker 02 Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, I'm having a panic attack just listening to this.
6:41 AJ Gentile? Petrie was pinned in a stone coffin. He had millions of tons of brick, sand, and mud pressing down on him. He tried to call for help, but he couldn't breathe. Then, his candle went out.
6:54 AJ Gentile? But this was Flinders Petrie. He didn't panic, he just waited. Eventually, a worker behind him realized something was wrong and tossed a lit match down the tunnel. That brief flash gave Petrie the orientation he needed to twist free. But he didn't quit. He lit another candle and went back in. He tried the north side first, but found nothing. So he took a chance and tunnelled south. And after just a few feet, he found an entrance. And not just a hole. He found a door with steps leading down under the pyramid. But now he had a new problem. Hawara sits on a canal just off the Nile. Centuries of irrigation raised the water table. The steps disappeared under salty, filthy water. Petrie went in anyway.
7:37 AJ Gentile? He crawled through the slime, darkness, and swarms of rats. When he finally broke into the inner passages, the water was chest-deep. He found sliding trapdoors and false passages. He found massive stones hanging from the ceiling rigged to drop on intruders.
7:57 AJ Gentile? Please, please don't. You're ruining the tension.
8:01 AJ Gentile? Petrie disarmed the traps one by one. When he finally reached the central chamber, it was carved from a single block of yellow quartzite. The roof was made of three slabs of white quartzite, each weighing 45 tons. It was an architectural masterpiece. And it was empty. Tomb robbers got there first.
8:19 AJ Gentile? Feeling defeated, Petrie studied the field of rubble next to the pyramid. He found the remains of an enormous building that covered 70 acres. Petrie realized what he discovered. The location matched ancient maps. The dimensions matched ancient descriptions. He was standing on the foundation of the lost labyrinth of Hawara. He was sure of it. But there was not much there, so Petrie packed up and went back to England. It was a tremendous discovery, but he was disappointed that the labyrinth was gone. But Petrie forgot one thing. The labyrinth went down multiple levels. He thought he discovered the foundation. It was actually the roof. The labyrinth wasn't destroyed. It was right under his feet. And it's still there.
9:07 AJ Gentile? Louis Decordier wasn't an archaeologist. He was a Belgian artist and philosopher who spent years studying ancient architecture. He was convinced Petri missed something.
9:17 AJ Gentile? It took two years, but Decordier managed to get a permit to survey the Hawara site. He partnered with Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, and he brought the most advanced ground-penetrating radar available. Decordier's team started scanning in early 2008. The equipment could see through 50 feet of sand and sediment. And what they found confirmed 2,500 years of history.
9:41 AJ Gentile? They found a massive grid of walls 40 feet down. The walls were several feet thick, and they were granite, not brick. The structure covered about 750,000 square feet. That's the size of 10 football fields. They published the results. The press picked up the story. This was one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in history. Then, nothing. Zahi Hawara was Egypt's Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
10:07 Speaker 02 Secretary General at a Supreme Council? Oh, the ego of a guy.
10:15 AJ Gentile? He was the most powerful archaeologist in the country, and he controlled all the permits. He imposed a communication ban on the discovery. He said it was a matter of national security.
10:24 Speaker 02 National security? On a 5,000-year-old building? This guy's got some stones.
10:31 AJ Gentile? Right? Decordier waited. Two years passed. The official release never came. The team couldn't discuss their findings. They couldn't publish follow-up research. They couldn't return to the site, not unless Hawara allowed it. By June 2010, Decordier had waited long enough. He published the data himself: scans, reports, analysis. Everything the Egyptian government refused to release. They blacklisted him. Decordier now lives in the mountains of southern Spain. He went from presenting at European universities to farming almonds. Decordier lost everything just for sharing data he collected legally with the help of the Egyptian government. But Zahi Hawara wanted to make an example of him. He wanted to make sure no one else tried to expose their secrets. But Decordier wasn't the only one.
11:23 AJ Gentile? If you find something in Egypt that challenges the official timeline, you don't get a Nobel Prize. You get banned. In 1993, German engineer Rudolf Gatenbrink sent a robot up a narrow shaft in the Great Pyramid.
11:36 AJ Gentile? He found something nobody expected: a limestone door with copper handles. He made the mistake of telling the world. Hawara immediately banned him. Then Hawara took the robot and the credit.
11:48 Speaker 04 And you was the one, Zahi, supposedly discovered it. But he's discovered everything.
11:53 Speaker 05 I discovered, I discovered, I discovered, I discovered now.
12:00 Speaker 05 About what I discovered in the stone that I discovered. I want to show the whole world what I discovered. And I discovered major, important things.
12:08 Speaker 04 Are they online?
12:09 Speaker 05 No, in my book, Giza and the Pyramids. In my book, Giza and the Pyramid.
12:14 AJ Gentile? It happened again in April 2008. The same month that Cordier was scanning at Hawara, researcher Andrew Collins was at Giza.
12:22 AJ Gentile? He followed old notes to the tomb of the birds. Collins found a crack in the rock leading to a massive chamber. He and his team made it several hundred yards into a system heading toward the second pyramid. They found carved rooms and passageways. Collins reported it. Big mistake. Hawara said the caves didn't exist. Collins was banned from the site. A few months later, Hawara was filmed entering the same caves.
12:47 Speaker 02 Rules for me, but not for Zahi. You see what I did there?
12:56 AJ Gentile? Hawara called exploring the caves an incredible experience, but nobody else would have that experience. In 2010, a metal gate was installed over the entrance. No further exploration is allowed.
13:07 Speaker 05 You cannot just go in directly like this. You have to make a study. You have to research it. You have to decide as a scientist, when can you do it? And when we can do it? It's been nine years. We do that, we can...
13:20 Speaker 04 Yeah, come on, I mean, we sent rockets. We sent rockets to the...
13:23 Speaker 05 No, no, you are wrong. Why give you permission to drink? Of nonsense. What you believe, it's nonsense. Listen, we... This tomato was detected rich and smooth. It is the name of a crook. It's closed in Chicago by a North Australian player.
13:45 Speaker 05 Jimmy, I want you to understand. This conspiracy theory that you do have is wrong completely. We do not hide anything. We have the Scan Pyramid Team.
13:59 Speaker 04 Right.
13:59 Speaker 05 They're working.
14:00 Speaker 04 But you understand this is different technology.
14:02 Speaker 05 I understand, but they know about this technology.
14:06 Speaker 04 But have they used this technology?
14:08 Speaker 05 They said this technology cannot work.
14:11 AJ Gentile? Discovery, suppression, silence. The same pattern, and the same man behind it all, Zahi Hawass. The labyrinth exists. It's considered the greatest structure of the ancient world. It's right there, forty feet underground, but no one is allowed to dig.
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15:07 AJ Gentile? On July 21st, 2015, a private meeting took place in the Crown Hotel in Harrogate, England.
15:14 AJ Gentile? Tim Akers was a former RAF officer and satellite expert. He spent his career tracking submarines and underground bunkers. He had something to show a small group of researchers. He used synthetic aperture radar, the same technology that finds hidden nuclear sites. Akers pointed it at Hawara. The scan showed four levels beneath the roof, not one. They were separated by up to 100 feet of solid rock. A central corridor connected all four levels. It was a vertical shaft, running the full depth of the complex, extending 150 feet underground. An omega-shaped moat surrounded the entire structure. The shape matched the Egyptian Shenn Ring, the symbol of eternity. Then Akers showed them the central hall.
15:56 AJ Gentile? The bottom level stretched 300 feet long and 120 feet wide. Every level converged on this space. And at the center of the hall was a freestanding object. It measured about 130 feet long. But here's where the story gets crazy. The radar return signal changed. It wasn't reflecting off stone. It wasn't wood or mud brick. The signature was metallic.
16:20 AJ Gentile? A solid metal object the size of the Statue of Liberty buried 100 feet underground, shaped like an upright disc or a ring. Akers said the material signature wasn't like anything he'd seen in his entire career. But it was there, and he didn't think it was a tomb. The shape suggested something functional. A ring that size, made of metal, buried at the exact center of a four-level complex. It wasn't decorative. It was built to do something. Some in his team thought it was a portal. Others thought it could be a power generator. The only thing they agreed on, it wasn't a coffin.
16:55 AJ Gentile? Akers and his team kept the finding secret for a decade. They learned from Decordier. If you go public, you get blacklisted. They wanted to excavate. They needed permits. After 10 years of quiet negotiations, they finally released the data in 2025. Still no permit. It's a four-level underground complex with 130-foot metallic object at the center. It's associated with Pharaoh Amunamot III around 1800 B.C. But the Egyptian priests said the labyrinth wasn't built by the pharaoh as a burial tomb. It was built by a much older civilization as a library. Those ancient people needed a place to store their knowledge before they were wiped out in a great flood.
17:33 Speaker 02 Ah, you mean?
17:34 AJ Gentile? The priests were talking about Atlantis.
17:36 Speaker 02 Yahtzee!
17:44 AJ Gentile? When Plato wrote about Atlantis around 360 B.C., he was specific. He named his source. He said Egyptian priests told the story to the Greek statesman Solon two centuries earlier. The priests had records. They had dates.
17:59 AJ Gentile? Plato said Atlantis fell around 9,600 B.C. Geologists say the ice age ended around 9,700 B.C. Robert Shach dates the Sphinx to 9,700 B.C. Three different sources, one specific date. For most of history, that date meant nothing. No civilization existed that early. Then we started finding things.
18:20 AJ Gentile? Around 9,700 B.C., the Younger Dryas Period ended. Global temperatures spiked, and the ice sheets collapsed.
18:34 AJ Gentile? Sea levels rose over 400 feet. Coastlines around the world flooded.
18:49 AJ Gentile? Entire land masses vanished beneath the waves.
18:51 Speaker 02 How dare you!
18:53 AJ Gentile? Every major ancient culture has flood myths dating to this exact period. Different cultures, different continents with no contact, but they tell the same story.
19:03 AJ Gentile? The Egyptians had their own version. They called the pre-flood era "Zeptepi," or "The First Time." The pyramid texts talk about it repeatedly. These are the oldest religious writings in the world. The Turan King List has dates and durations. Divine rulers that reigned for thousands of years before human pharaohs. This wasn't vague mythology, these were administrative records. Mainstream Egyptology calls this symbolic. They say the gods represent concepts, not beings. Then there's the Temple of Horus at Edfu. The Edfu building texts span over 300 feet of wall space. They describe the temple's construction on foundations from an earlier structure that existed before the flood.
19:45 AJ Gentile? They reference beings called the Shebtu. These were followers of Horus who arrived after a great cataclysm destroyed their homeland. They also mention seven sages who came with them from an island swallowed by the sea. These aren't scribbles on a papyrus. These are carved into the temple walls. And these texts describe what these beings did. They established sacred mounds throughout Egypt. They laid foundations for temples at precise locations. They brought knowledge of astronomy, architecture, mathematics, and medicine. They taught the people who would become the first Egyptians. Now, this doesn't read like mythology. This reads like history. The Edfu texts describe a lost civilization that brought knowledge to Egypt. Mainstream historians call it a nice story.
20:28 AJ Gentile? They say there's no physical evidence that this first time ever existed. They're wrong. The evidence is carved into the bedrock itself.
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21:17 AJ Gentile? In 1991, geologist Robert Shach took a close look at the Great Sphinx. The wall showed vertical fissures. These are erosion patterns caused by prolonged rainfall. Not wind, not sand, water falling from the sky over extended periods.
21:33 AJ Gentile? Egypt's last significant rainfall ended around 5,000 B.C. Shach estimated the minimum construction date for the Sphinx was between 7,000 and 5,000 B.C., but he later pushed that estimate to 9,700 B.C. based on additional geological analysis. This was directly after the cataclysm and directly after the floods receded. The same weathering appears on the Asyrian at Abydos. Massive red granite blocks are cut with precision modern engineers struggle to replicate. And there's water. Constant water fills the lower chambers and it cannot be pumped out. The site was designed for water.
22:10 AJ Gentile? Edoar Naveel excavated the Osirion in 1914. He was a mainstream Egyptologist, not a fringe theorist. He said he wouldn't be surprised if this was the most ancient architectural structure in Egypt. He was ignored. Strabo explicitly stated both the Osirion and the labyrinth shared the same builder. He called the king Ismandis. Same builder, same era, same construction techniques.
22:35 AJ Gentile? Gobekli Tepe in Turkey proves advanced construction existed in 9,600 B.C. Massive stone circles, carved pillars weighing tons, astronomical alignments precise to fractions of degrees. It was built by people who supposedly hadn't invented agriculture yet. Then it was intentionally buried around 8,000 B.C. It was as if someone wanted to preserve it and keep it hidden. Someone was here long before the ancient Egyptians. And whoever they were, they helped jumpstart Egyptian civilization. Hieroglyphics appeared suddenly around 3,500 B.C. They were complete and perfect. There was no developmental period, no primitive early versions. Math, medicine, astronomy, architecture, all appeared fully formed.
23:18 AJ Gentile? It was as if someone handed the Egyptians a complete operating manual. And that operating manual is still here. Every bit of ancient knowledge is in the labyrinth. We can read it right now, today. All we have to do is dig.
23:36 AJ Gentile? If an advanced civilization knew it was about to be destroyed, they would do exactly what we would do. They would preserve what mattered. They would store knowledge somewhere it could survive. They would build a vault.
23:49 AJ Gentile? Every civilization builds archives, from the Library of Alexandria to the Vatican Archives. In the 1930s, Edgar Cayce described another archive. Cayce was a transmedium. He delivered over 14,000 documented readings across 43 years. He diagnosed medical conditions for patients he'd never met. Conditions he had no training to identify. Doctors used his readings for treatment. But his most controversial claims involved Atlantis.
24:16 AJ Gentile? Hundreds of readings across two decades returned to the same subject.
24:23 AJ Gentile? According to Cayce, an advanced civilization was destroyed around 10,000 B.C.
24:42 AJ Gentile? This was around the end of the last Ice Age. It's the same timeframe as the Younger Dryas Cataclysm.
24:50 AJ Gentile? But there were survivors. They scattered to Egypt, the Yucatan, and the Bahamas. They brought technology, they brought knowledge. And to preserve that knowledge, they built archives. Casey described a Hall of Records beneath the Giza Plateau in dozens of separate readings between 1923 and 1944. He described thirty-two tablets documenting Atlantis from the beginning. They were written in both Atlantean and Egyptian script. It was a Rosetta Stone for a lost civilization. And Casey was specific. He talked about their technology. Sound waves used for construction, acoustic levitation. He described crystals that generated power. The entrance is under the Sphinx's right paw. And the Sphinx served as a guardian sentinel. It marked the archive's location for those who know where to look.
25:36 AJ Gentile? Casey's followers took him seriously. In the 1990s, the Association for Research and Enlightenment funded seismic surveys at Giza. A man with a sledgehammer pounded a steel plate on the desert's surface. Shock waves traveled down through the rock and back up. The readings showed a chamber exactly where Casey predicted. It was beneath the Sphinx's paw. And he wasn't the only one who saw it.
25:59 AJ Gentile? Dorothy Eadie was a British archaeologist who worked for the Egyptian Department of Antiquities. She was a sane, rational researcher who also happened to believe she was the reincarnation of an ancient priestess.
26:10 Speaker 02 Oh, I believe her. I was a king in a past life.
26:13 AJ Gentile? You were a king?
26:14 Speaker 02 Okay, a shift manager at a Taco Bell in Jersey. But I ruled that drive-thru with an iron fin.
26:19 AJ Gentile? Okay.
26:20 Speaker 02 I was a strict but fair shift manager at Taco Bell.
26:24 AJ Gentile? We have a whole episode on Dorothy Eadie.
26:26 Speaker 02 Lean down on your chalupa.
26:28 AJ Gentile? Now, someone claiming to be a reincarnated ancient Egyptian priestess sounds fringe. But archaeologists listen to Dorothy Eadie because her memories helped them find actual ruins at Abydos. And she claimed that beneath the Sphinx lay a Hall of Records containing the history of the past. And seismic readings show that the rooms are there and that they contain something. Now, it could be rubble, or it could be artifacts. Nobody knows. The only way to find out is to dig. But no digging is allowed.
26:57 AJ Gentile? Right now, a team from the Polytechnic University of Milan is at Giza. They're using cosmic ray muon radiography, technology that sees through stone like X-rays see through the body. They claim they're mapping structural voids. And look at where they're scanning. They're focusing on the deep bedrock beneath the plateau, the exact place where Casey said the Hall of Records is waiting to be opened. The Italians are scanning deep under Giza right now. They're looking for the Hall of Records. And they might find it. But if you were in an advanced civilization and you wanted to hide your most precious secrets, you wouldn't put them under the most famous landmark on Earth. A much better place for such important knowledge would be a maze carved deep underground. In other words, a labyrinth.
27:45 AJ Gentile? Maybe the Hall of Records isn't in Giza. Maybe it's in the labyrinth. Giza served as the public monument. It was the marker. Three pyramids visible for miles. Everyone knew where Giza was, everyone still does. But if you wanted to hide something, you wouldn't put it under the most famous landmark on Earth. You'd put it somewhere less obvious, somewhere with better security, somewhere designed from the beginning as a vault.
28:09 AJ Gentile? 3,000 rooms underground, climate controlled by the Earth itself, perfect conditions for preservation, guarded by priests for 2,000 years, a structure so complex that intruders can never find their way out. The labyrinth wasn't a tomb. It was a repository. Historians documented it. The surface levels were Egypt's administrative hub. Government operations were visible to visitors. The middle levels held the religious archives and the crocodile burials Herodotus talked about. The deepest level was for technology storage. It held a 130-foot metallic ring, a portal that the priests protected but never fully understood. The priests said it was created by the builders, not the pharaohs, the people who came before. They weren't guarding burial chambers.
28:53 AJ Gentile? They were guarding the knowledge of the Zebtepi. They were guarding the secrets of the first time.
29:04 AJ Gentile? Ancient accounts across six centuries describe the same structure and the same location. 2008 ground-penetrating radar confirmed a massive complex 40 feet underground. 2015 satellite imaging revealed four levels and a metallic object at the center. Both discoveries were suppressed. The 2008 expedition happened. There's nothing to debunk. They published results. They found granite walls spanning an area of 10 football fields. Hawara imposed a communications ban citing national security. Decordia published independently and was permanently blacklisted. The suppression is real, and the structure is confirmed. We still don't know what's down there. Scans show anomalies that require excavation to interpret.
29:47 AJ Gentile? The metallic reading could be an object, or it could be a geological formation. Iron deposits occur naturally. And critics say satellite radar can't penetrate that deep. The claims require digging to verify. And until we dig, we have no idea what the metal object actually is. The Italian scans show voids. Now whether those voids contain rubble or records, we won't know until we dig. Now, the Atlantis connection is interesting. But Plato's account is the only primary source. No archaeological evidence confirms a pre-flood civilization with advanced technology. Casey's readings were never independently verified. And the Enfut text could be mythology, not memory. And mainstream archaeology firmly rejects the idea of an advanced ancient civilization.
30:26 Speaker 02 Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, pal. Ugh. Ahahaha! I'm throwing rocks tonight!
30:33 AJ Gentile? They refuse to accept the geological and physical evidence because it breaks their model of history. But, conventional dating can't explain the water erosion at Giza. Shakh's theology hasn't been debunked, it's been ignored. The Osirian shows identical weathering on megalithic blocks that dwarf anything the Egyptians built. Gobekli Tepe proves sophisticated construction existed in 9,600 B.C. Or before. The flood myths align with geological evidence for the Younger Dryas catastrophe. Something happened at the end of the Ice Age. Something we don't fully understand. Meanwhile, the labyrinth is in trouble.
31:11 AJ Gentile? Salt water is eroding everything. The water table rises every year. In 2024, geologists warned that if something isn't done about the water damage soon, the entire site will be destroyed. Thousands of years of history, gone. And so far, their advice has been ignored. The greatest wonder of the ancient world is dissolving, while bureaucrats argue about permits. And any scientist who dares speak up is blacklisted by Zahi Was. The structure is real. The scans confirm it. A massive metal object is sitting at the center of a great underground hall. The priests guarded it for thousands of years. And now, when we finally have the technology to see what's down there, we're not allowed to look. Herodotus stood at the entrance to the underground. The priests told him no.
31:55 AJ Gentile? 2,500 years later, we're still standing at the same door. And now, Zahi Was is telling us no. But walls do more than keep people out. They keep secrets in. And if the scans are right, the secret waiting in the labyrinth isn't just about Egypt's past. It's about all of ours. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. My name is AJ. That's Hecklefish.
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34:13 AJ Gentile? talking about the same weird stuff we do here. It's a great community, it's really supportive, it's a lot of fun, and it's free to join. And speaking of 24/7, check out our 24/7 stream on The Wifiles Backstage. Over there, we run episodes back to back with some fun content in between. Actually, Morgan the Beaver has been making some appearances over there. So the episodes are a lot of fun, but what's really a great time is the chat. An incredible community has sprung up over there, so definitely check it out. Links are down below. Special thanks to our patrons who made this channel possible. Every episode of The Wifiles is dedicated to our Patreon members. From the beginning, I couldn't do any of this without your incredible support. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. And if you'd like to support the channel, keep us going, and join this amazing community, become a member on Patreon. For as little as $3 a month,
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35:25 Speaker 02 Grab a heck of a t-shirt. Oh, one of these fistful of coffee mugs. You can slide your fist in when nobody's looking. Do whatever you want. I'm not gonna judge you. Oh, honey, I'll get some of my face on it. I'll grab one of these squeeze animals. But, oh, he's so cute, I'm just gonna squeeze on him. Get a heck of a sh-tuckin' dawt, boy.
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36:12 AJ Gentile? Last plug. In a few weeks, I'm launching a new show called The Basement, where I'll be talking with interesting people. Some of them you know, some you don't. But they're all people that I find fascinating, and a lot of them are the names behind the research to the stories that I do here. And if there's someone you'd like to see on the show, let me know. We're always on the hunt for good guests. Again, the show is called The Basement, and the episodes will land here on the main channel until I figure something else out. Anyway, that's gonna do it, right? That's gonna do it. Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated.
37:00 Speaker 07 I played Bolivia's scenario fifty-one. A secret code inside the bible said I was. I love my UFOs and paranormal fun as well as music. So I'm singing like I should. But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends. And it never ends, no it never ends.
37:38 Speaker 07 I fear the crackhead and got stuck inside mail's hole with them kale trucks. I'm being only too aware. Did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing alone? On a film set, were the shadows people there?
37:57 Speaker 07 The Rockwell aliens just fought the smiling man. I'm told, and his name was Cold. And I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ. And we're back, we're back, we're back through the night.
38:19 Speaker 07 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth So the wind blows on my feet all through the night
38:44 Speaker 07 The Mothman sightings and the solar storms still come To have got the secret city underground Mysterious number stations planet circle to Project Stargate and what the dark watchers found In a simulation don't you worry though The black night satellite it told me so I can't believe I'm dancing with a fish Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ too And the wind blows on my feet all through the night All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth
39:28 Speaker 07 So the wind blows on my feet all through the night Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ too And the wind blows on my feet all through the night All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth So the wind blows on my feet all through the night
40:03 Speaker 07 Girlie loves to dance Girlie loves to dance on the dance floor Because she is a camel And camels love to dance When the feeling is right on the way Within time
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