How does one go about making the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the most enigmatic and mysterious structures on the planet, even more mysterious? Disallow photography. I was absolutely shocked. Each time I’d been inside the Great Pyramid prior to 2024, photography had been allowed, and I have some fantastic footage from inside. However, due to scores of people taking photos of themselves inside the coffer in the King’s Chamber and posting them on social media, the Egyptian Antiquities Authority has been cracking down. As is so often the case, a few have ruined it for many, and I felt terrible for those in the group who had never been inside the Great Pyramid before. I have plenty of photos and footage from the other times I’d visited, so I wasn’t upset for myself; I was upset for those who couldn’t capture images of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Our day started in Aswan, however. We had a flight to catch from Upper Egypt back up north to Cairo – one last breakfast on our Nile Cruise. There was no murder pudding this time to send us off, however. Part of the drive takes us right over the Aswan dam, which provides for a nice distance photo of the Philae temple out in the lake where we had just been the previous morning. It was all going so fast now. The first few days of the tour had been a nice, slow ramp up to our deeper explorations, and now the days were flying by, the calendar pages tearing away at breakneck speed. Now, there were only two days left, and we were checking in to our final hotel and eating our farewell dinner at Mawlana BBQ.
Our private visit to the Great Pyramid of Giza began at 7:00 PM sharp, and would conclude at 9:00 PM sharp. There’s no messing around with time with these sorts of visits, and we took it right to the very end. Like I said, I was upset for the group to not get a chance to take photos inside the Great Pyramid, but when we were finished they all said that wasn’t a major issue for them. They all enjoyed their time in the pyramid and got to do the things they wanted to do, primarily, to meditate inside.
With Mohamed not rejoining us until the next day and Ahmed already dispatched to work with another tour, I was the sole guide for this venture. Since time was precious and I knew most members of the group wanted as much free time as possible inside the pyramid, my strategy was to give them a brief introduction to the chambers and then let them have at it. Since the subterranean chamber is a long trek and some didn’t want to venture down the shaft, I took the group to the Queen’s Chamber first even though the entrance to the subterranean chamber is first along the route. The Queen’s Chamber, unfortunately, has become the storeroom for tools and equipment that are brought inside the Great Pyramid. This room is off-limits to the public, so the authorities must consider the clutter irrelevant, but it’s a real shame given that this is an ancient World Heritage monument.
Once inside, I first described the passage we used to enter the Great Pyramid, which is not the main entrance at all. What the public uses to enter the Great Pyramid of Giza is what’s known as the “robber’s entrance,” purportedly created by Caliph al Ma’mun around 820 or 830 A.D. in order to steal the riches that were supposed to be inside. At this time, the white limestone casing stones were still intact on the pyramid, so the main entrance above was not visible. Thus, al-Ma’mun and his men blasted their way through. What’s fascinating about this is, for one, of course, they didn’t find any treasure, but they were also extremely precise in their penetration of the pyramid. Somehow, they curved their tunnel at the precise moment in order to intersect the small area where the main entrance shaft leads down to the subterranean chamber and the upper shaft that leads to the Grand Gallery and beyond. This causes some to speculate that al-Ma’mun may have had some sort of map, or there’s an alternative theory that someone dug a way out from inside. The latter is a bit harder to believe because where inside the pyramid would a group digging themselves out have put the rubble they created? However, the precision of this intersection should cause us to question the details behind the al-Ma’mun story.
As for the Queen’s Chamber, to me, this is the smoking gun behind the theories that the Great Pyramid of Giza was not a tomb but some sort of machine (some believe power plant). Here, in a corbeled niche on the left side of the room we find the black scorch marks of something extremely hot having burned here. In fact, it was so hot that it started to melt the limestone. The traditional idea that this niche contained some sort of statue or idol, but that makes no sense given the physical evidence present. There is also a layer of salt on the walls of the chamber and a shaft that extends out from the niche and back into the pyramid about six meters in its original construction and seemingly lengthened in a rough manner by searchers in later years. Also present in this chamber are two very small shafts that were originally believed to be ventilation shafts but are, apparently, more. One of the shafts is blocked by a limestone “door” with two copper “handles,” the purpose for which we still don’t know, but it should tell us there was a lot more going on with the Queen’s Chamber than previously suspected. While this door was drilled into several years ago during a live broadcast, when a micro-snake camera was fished through the hole that was created the broadcast suddenly cut out. There is raw footage of what was recorded that can be found online and we have to trust what this very grainy, poor-quality video is showing us … which isn’t much other than looking at stone.
Yes, that’s a lot to point out for just one chamber (and there’s more), but I didn’t want to tarry too long since we still had the Grand Gallery, Antechamber, King’s Chamber, and Subterranean Chamber (for those willing) to explore, all of which I decided to describe once we were in the King’s Chamber – there’s just not a whole lot of room on the small platform in the Grand Gallery, and the Antechamber can really only hold about three people. In the video above you’ll see me describe a number of interesting features about the King’s Chamber, but the more and more I look at the Antechamber the more I believe it is a very important, often-overlooked piece of the whole functionality of the machine. The perfectly-carved vertical grooves here in the wall leading into the King’s Chamber were already perplexing enough, but taking a better look at it this time, this block wraps around into the side walls of the Antechamber but only to a certain height. It’s a very specially-carved piece for a specific function.
I could write about the Great Pyramid of Giza all day, and I will certainly be covering it in my forthcoming book. I do want to take a moment to address something I always say about touring Egypt – it is always life-changing. In my recent newsletter to subscribers of the Connected Universe Portal, I described the following:
Let me first say that every time I've been to Egypt it has been a life-changing experience. I do not say that merely as a piece of marketing copy -- it seriously is life-changing. And this Stargates tour was no different, and in fact, was certainly even more so. We had an amazing group of like-minded people who discussed -- deep into the night sometimes -- our soul connections to Egypt, to the universe, and beyond. This tour was a transformative upgrade on so many different dimensional levels, and I'm still trying to process it all. Once again, I received clarity on the direction of my next book, but I also received the inspiration of enlightenment and how to share that with the world through my work. Life was already changing this year, but now it will be on a whole other dimension. My time in Egypt was, seriously, a leveling up, and right now I'm figuring out the best way to present that to everyone.
As you can see above, one of the things I figured out – and it happened last time I was in Egypt – was the direction of my next book. If you’ve been following along then you know my next book was supposed to be on earth energy and a deeper dive into ancient sites of power and triangle areas of the world. It seemed like such a natural progression from Travels Through Time and my explorations into the fabric of the universe and what we call time. That meant my book on stargates, Atlantis, and ancient Egypt was to be put on the backburner to be the third installment in the series. After this adventure in Egypt, no … I must dive headlong into the stargates book and, instead, put the earth energy book on the backburner. I always find writing inspiration in Egypt, and this is the direction the universe has me pointed. There’s still a lot of overlap between the two topics, so the direction of this blog won’t change, but the focus will be shifted a bit. It’s all part of the adventure!
Watch the Stargates of Ancient Egypt tour video travel vlog here: https://www.connecteduniverseportal.com/products/connected-universe-secret-library/categories/2155178857