I didn’t want to go down this rabbit hole. I really didn’t. I’ve commented before on what they’re finding at Giza, on the engineering that went into those pyramids, and how they stand there as these massive, precise works that feel equal in their own way to the earthworks and mound structures scattered across central Ohio. Markers of cultures that came, did their thing with the land and the stars, and then faded or got overwritten. But the more I hear about these recent scans—satellite radar picking up giant columns, what sound like enormous cylindrical structures, spiral staircases, and a whole underground megastructure or even a “city” beneath the Khafre Pyramid and across the Giza Plateau—the harder it is to stay quiet. Italian researchers using SAR technology have been talking about this since around 2025, mapping vertical shafts, horizontal passages, branched tunnels, and something so large they’re calling it a sprawling subterranean citadel.  There’s even talk of a second Sphinx hidden under a sand mound, with lines of symmetry connecting it to the known one. They’re still analyzing, waiting on permissions to dig, but the data is out there now, and it lines up with what a lot of people have suspected for years about chambers under the paws, voids inside the pyramids themselves, and structures that go deeper than the water table should comfortably allow.

I see the Great Pyramid the way I see those Ohio mounds—not as the starting point of a civilization, but as a marker left by or built upon something that came before. The conventional story puts the pyramids at Giza around 2580–2560 BC, built for Khufu and his successors in the Fourth Dynasty. Incredible precision in the alignment to true north, the star shafts pointing to Orion and Sirius, the mathematics that still makes engineers shake their heads. But step inside the Great Pyramid proper and you notice something striking: there are no hieroglyphs in the main chambers. Quarry marks with Khufu’s name appear in some of the relieving chambers above the King’s Chamber, but the core structure lacks the elaborate inscriptions you’d expect from a royal Egyptian tomb of that era. That absence has always nagged at me. It suggests the thing might predate the full flowering of dynastic Egyptian writing and ritual, or that it served a different primary purpose than what the later pharaohs used it for.

The Sphinx tells a similar story when you look at the erosion. Robert Schoch has been arguing for decades that the vertical, undulating solution features and deep fissures on the enclosure walls and body of the Sphinx come from prolonged heavy rainfall, not just wind or salt crystallization.  Those patterns don’t show up the same way on other Giza structures from the same limestone layer. Schoch’s timeline keeps getting pushed back—originally before 5000 BC, then toward 9700 BC, aligning with the end of the last Ice Age and the wetter conditions of the African Humid Period, what we call the Green Sahara.  Back then the desert wasn’t a desert. There were lakes, rivers, grasslands, and room for people to build and sustain more complex societies. The Nile itself behaved differently. Sea levels sat hundreds of feet lower during the depths of the Ice Age, and even several thousand years later the coastlines and water tables were not what we see today. Critics say the erosion could come from occasional heavy rains that lingered into the Old Kingdom or from quarrying and later flooding, but the concentrated vertical weathering on the Sphinx enclosure still looks to me like it records a wetter climate that ended long before the conventional date for Khafre’s complex.

What the recent scans are hinting at underneath changes the picture even more. Giant columns or cylinders deep below, structures that appear to sit below the current water table in places. People always bring up the practical problem: how do you maintain chambers or machinery under the water table without constant pumping or sealing? But I’ve seen the same thing here in Ohio. The aquifers under Butler County and the Great Miami River valley are some of the best in the world, fed by glacial melt from the Ice Age. Data centers are going up in Trenton partly because that ancient freshwater is right there under the surface, abundant and cold. And if you go out to Lake Erie, to the quartz caves under South Bass Island, you can walk around chambers that sit below the lake level itself. The water doesn’t have to be an absolute barrier if the builders understood the geology, the rock, and how to work with pressure and sealing. So the idea that something substantial sits under the pyramids and Sphinx, possibly older than the stone we see on the surface, doesn’t strike me as impossible. It strikes me as consistent with how advanced cultures mark territory and time.

I keep coming back to the same human pattern. When a new culture or a new group of people moves into a place with existing monuments of power and knowledge, the first instinct is often to build on top of them—literally and figuratively. You claim the site, you add your own layer, you put your symbols on it, and you try to make the previous work look like it was always leading up to you. It’s the ex-husband syndrome played out at civilizational scale. The new husband comes in, takes the old pictures off the wall, redecorates, and dreads the day the ex shows up to pick up the kids because the reminder threatens the new narrative. In business you see the same thing: new ownership or new management comes in, replaces the old team where they can, puts up the “new management” sign, and quietly sidelines anything that reminds people the previous regime had real competence or deeper roots. In politics and in cities it happens constantly. Here in Ohio, plenty of our towns and developments sit on or right next to ancient earthworks. The Adena built conical mounds and ritual spaces as early as 800 BC or before; the Hopewell created those vast geometric enclosures and ceremonial landscapes across central and southern Ohio a couple thousand years ago; later Fort Ancient people added their own layers.  Many of those mounds got plowed flat or built over as European settlement expanded. Sometimes a street gets named after the mound that used to be there, but the living memory and the full context get erased. It’s the same instinct: we don’t want the reminder that somebody with different knowledge or different priorities was here first and did impressive things with the landscape.

I think that’s exactly what happened at Giza. A previous culture—whether entirely human or with some non-human intelligence component we’re only now starting to confront through UAP disclosure—left behind markers. Massive stonework, precise alignments to the stars, possibly functional technology or energy-related structures that later scans are picking up as those giant columns and underground networks. The Egyptians who rose in the Nile Valley encountered those markers or the remnants of the people who maintained them. They decided to revere them in their own way, or to dominate them by building their own magnificent versions right on top and around them. They added hieroglyphic language that shows clear influences from Sumerian cuneiform traditions and broader trade networks that stretched across the ancient world—networks that likely included people moving by boat along coastlines and island chains even when the climate was colder and sea levels different. The pyramids we see became the Egyptian statement: we are here now, we are the inheritors, this is our story. But the bones underneath, the deeper structures the SAR scans are revealing, tell a longer tale.

That pattern repeats across the planet. You hear stories of pyramid-like structures or aligned markers in China, in parts of Russia, even satellite interpretations of features in Antarctica that some claim look artificial from a time when the continent wasn’t fully ice-covered. The Piri Reis map from 1513 shows a southern landmass with detail that has fueled arguments about older source maps depicting Antarctica before the ice.  Mainstream scholarship debates whether it’s truly Antarctica or a distorted South America, but the existence of such maps at all points to lost or transmitted knowledge that doesn’t fit the tidy timeline of “civilization starts in Sumer and Egypt around 3000 BC and spreads from there.” Lake Superior copper mining offers another data point. The Old Copper Complex shows indigenous people extracting and working native copper on a significant scale going back at least to the Middle Archaic period, with some evidence and arguments pushing activity earlier, around or before 4000–5000 BC in places.  That’s sophisticated work for the time—pits, fire-setting, hammering, annealing—and it suggests networks and knowledge that could move materials and ideas across long distances. When you combine that with lower sea levels during and after the Ice Age, easier land bridges in some regions, and the simple fact that determined people in boats have always been willing to push beyond the horizon (the “lunatics” who kept going island to island across the Pacific, proving the world wasn’t flat by coming back with stories), the idea of earlier, wider human or hybrid activity becomes a lot more plausible.

The reluctance to fully excavate and publicize what’s under Giza fits the same pattern. If you’re the new culture trying to own the narrative, you don’t want hard evidence that a previous layer had superior engineering, possibly superior spiritual or technological connection, or simply existed on a timeline that makes your own story look derivative. You control access, you control the permits, you let the sand and the official story do the work of erasure. But the longer you sit on it, the more conspiracy theories bloom in the vacuum. That’s what we’re seeing now. The scans are forcing the conversation. People are asking what those giant columns and cylinders are doing down there. Are they structural? Are they part of some energy or resonance system the earlier builders understood? Are they tombs, or something else entirely? We don’t know the engineering details yet. What I do know is that the human instinct to build on top of and then minimize the previous is so consistent across families, businesses, cities, and civilizations that it would be strange if it didn’t happen at Giza too.

This ties directly into the larger picture I’ve been exploring in my own work. In The Politics of Heaven, I’ve been laying out how hidden motivations and narrative control operate across time—biblical conspiracies, giants, Nephilim, spiritual warfare, population agendas, and the way power structures try to keep certain layers of history and reality concealed. The same forces that try to manage what we know about current UAP encounters and non-human intelligence are often the same institutional reflexes that prefer to keep archaeological questions safely within the approved timeline. Disclosure is accelerating now, partly because we’re pushing into space in a serious way and the old containment strategy no longer holds. Governments and agencies that spent decades telling the public there was nothing to see are having to adjust because the data and the public pressure won’t allow the old story to stand. The same thing is happening with these Giza scans. The smoke is visible; there’s fire somewhere underneath.

I’ve watched the same dynamic play out in smaller arenas. During the Covid years I took the family RV out to New Mexico for a stretch, partly to clear my head and partly because I was furious at how business and government institutions were behaving. I spent time walking the ground where the Lincoln County War and the John Chisum ranch conflicts played out—Billy the Kid territory. That land teaches you something about resilience and about how stories get written by the survivors and the powerful. I wrote The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business out there, drawing on what I’d learned in aerospace and in dealing with consultants and new management trying to overwrite previous knowledge. The gunfighter ethos isn’t about shooting first; it’s about seeing the situation clearly, imposing your will on circumstances when they’re trying to impose on you, and refusing to let the official story erase what you know to be true. That same refusal is what’s needed now with these ancient sites. We don’t have to accept the most outlandish theories, but we also don’t have to accept the most defensive official timeline that treats every anomaly as a threat to be explained away.

The Sphinx itself carries that tension. Napoleon’s soldiers supposedly found it buried up to the neck in sand. The Dream Stele in front of it tells the story of Thutmose IV being promised kingship if he cleared the sand away. Now the scans are suggesting there might be a twin monument and a whole network underneath. If the erosion really does record a much wetter climate, and if the underground features turn out to be as extensive as the SAR data implies, then the Sphinx and the pyramids above it become even clearer as layered markers. One culture’s sacred or functional site gets sanded over by time and climate, another culture claims it and builds bigger, and the process of reverence mixed with domination repeats. We do it in our personal lives every time a blended family tries to pretend the previous spouse never existed. We do it in corporate takeovers. We do it when cities pave over historic neighborhoods or when political movements try to memory-hole inconvenient parts of the past. The scale is different at Giza, but the psychology is the same.

So what do I think those coils and columns under the pyramids actually are? I think they’re remnants of a previous technological or ritual system that the later Egyptians either didn’t fully understand or chose to incorporate and then overwrite with their own monumental statement. I don’t see them as simple extensions of the pyramid construction itself. I see them as evidence that something older and possibly more advanced was already operating in that landscape when the people we call Egyptians arrived or consolidated power. The same way the Ohio earthworks mark the presence of cultures that had their own sophisticated understanding of geometry, astronomy, and ritual landscape before later groups moved through or settled on top of them. The same way global distribution of pyramid forms and aligned monuments hints at knowledge that traveled or arose independently in multiple places during windows when climate and sea levels made long-distance movement more feasible than we sometimes assume.

The most disconcerting part, as I’ve said before, is realizing that the culture we credit with the pyramids may itself have been a kind of cargo or inheritor culture—impressive in its own right, but building on foundations laid by others. That doesn’t diminish the achievement of the Egyptians who maintained and expanded the site. It simply puts them in a longer chain of human (and possibly more-than-human) activity on this planet. And it explains why there’s such institutional resistance to letting the excavations go where the scans are pointing. Admitting a deeper timeline or a previous layer of capability forces a rewrite of the story we tell ourselves about progress and about who gets to claim the mantle of “most advanced.”

I keep saying the same thing to anyone who will listen: if you don’t want the conspiracy theories, go dig. Put shovels and ground-penetrating tools and proper archaeological teams on the sites the SAR data has flagged. Publish the raw results. Let the evidence speak instead of letting silence and restricted access breed every wild speculation imaginable. The water table is a challenge, not an impossibility, as anyone who’s worked around glacial aquifers or island caves knows. The technology exists to investigate safely. What’s missing is often the will, and that absence of will tells its own story about narrative control.

We’re living in a time when multiple lines of evidence—UAP disclosure files, these Giza scans, re-examination of global mound and pyramid sites, genetic and archaeological work on ancient migrations—are converging on the same conclusion: we were never alone, and the timeline of high civilization on Earth is longer and more layered than the standard model allowed. Previous cultures left markers aligned to the stars so that later people would know when they were in history and that they were not the first. Some of those markers got built over, sanded over, or deliberately minimized. The human pattern of the new husband erasing the old pictures, or the new management pretending the old company had nothing valuable, plays out at every scale. But the markers keep surfacing. The scans at Giza are just the latest reminder that the ground itself remembers what official stories try to forget.

So I say let’s look. Let’s measure those columns and cylinders properly. Let’s see what’s under the second Sphinx if it’s there. Let’s connect it to the water table realities and the climate history of the Green Sahara and the Ice Age sea level changes. Let’s compare it honestly to the earthworks in Ohio and the copper networks around the Great Lakes and the persistent stories of older knowledge preserved in maps and myths. And let’s do it without the reflexive need to make everything fit the shortest, safest timeline. The truth doesn’t need protecting from evidence. Only insecure narratives do.

The pyramids and what lies beneath them are not just engineering marvels or tombs. They are signposts. They mark a time when a previous layer of capability existed, got partially overwritten by the next wave of culture, and left enough of a trace that we’re still arguing about it thousands of years later. That argument itself is the proof of the pattern. Every time we choose to dig instead of dismiss, we push back against the oldest human habit of all: the habit of building our monuments on the bones of the previous world and then pretending we were always the ones who mattered most. The scans are forcing the issue now. The question is whether we’ll have the courage to follow the evidence wherever it leads—into the water table, into the deeper timeline, and into the uncomfortable recognition that we are part of a much older and more crowded story than we were taught.

I’ve been saying variations of this for years, in conversations and in my writing. The more the data comes in—from Giza, from disclosure channels, from re-readings of ancient texts like the Book of Enoch and its accounts of earlier presences—the more consistent the picture becomes. There was something here before. It left markers. Later cultures built on those markers, sometimes revering them, sometimes trying to dominate or erase the memory of them. We’re doing the same thing in our own time with information and with history. The only way out of the cycle is to stop being afraid of what the ground, or the scans, or the disclosure documents actually say. Go dig. Publish everything. Let the previous layers speak for themselves. That’s how you break the pattern instead of repeating it.

And when we do, I suspect we’ll find that the “coils” and columns under Giza are not anomalies to be explained away. They’re evidence. Evidence of a previous technological or ritual presence that understood things about energy, resonance, water, and alignment that we’re only beginning to rediscover. Evidence that the Egyptians were not the sole authors of the Giza Plateau but participants in a longer conversation with the past. Evidence that human nature—magnificent, insecure, creative, and destructive—has been playing the same overwriting game since the first monuments went up. The scans have already started the next chapter. Now it’s up to us whether we read it honestly or keep trying to paste our preferred story over the top of it.

Bibliography / Sources Referenced

1.  New York Post, “Researchers detect second Sphinx beneath Pyramids of Giza,” March 27, 2026 (reporting on Filippo Biondi SAR satellite radar claims of megastructure, columns, tunnels, and possible twin Sphinx under sand mound).

2.  Jerusalem Post and related coverage of Italian-Scottish Khafre SAR Project announcements, March 2025–2026, detailing underground “city” or megastructure detections beneath Giza Plateau.

3.  Ancient Architects YouTube analysis and related discussions of “Giant Cylinders Below the Khafre Pyramid” from 2025 SAR scan data releases.

4.  ScanPyramids project documentation and updates on internal voids and corridors in the Great Pyramid and other Giza monuments (ongoing muon and thermal scanning work).

5.  Robert M. Schoch research highlights on the Great Sphinx water erosion hypothesis (robertschoch.com and associated publications); see also Wikipedia summary of the hypothesis for overview of vertical solution features and rainfall arguments.

6.  Mark Lehner and mainstream Egyptological responses on Sphinx enclosure, erosion causes, and integration with Khafre complex (various publications and interviews, including Getty Conservation Institute and geoarchaeological studies).

7.  Wikipedia and academic summaries of the African Humid Period / Green Sahara (roughly 14,500–5,000 years ago, with regional drying timelines affecting Nile Valley and potential for earlier complex societies).

8.  Ohio History Connection / Serpent Mound site information; Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks descriptions; Adena and Fort Ancient mound-building chronologies (circa 800 BC–AD 1650 range for major activity).

9.  Wikipedia “Old Copper Complex” and National Park Service Isle Royale / Great Lakes copper mining history; additional reporting on Middle Archaic copper metallurgy dates (~4000 BC and earlier activity claims).

10.  Wikipedia “Piri Reis map” and related discussions of 1513 cartography showing southern landmasses; alternative history analyses of possible Antarctica ice-free source data.

11.  Standard Egyptological references on Fourth Dynasty pyramid construction, alignments, and lack of extensive internal hieroglyphs in the Great Pyramid core (e.g., Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids; Zahi Hawass statements on Giza access and discoveries).

12.  Broader climate and sea-level literature on Last Glacial Maximum and post-Ice Age changes (lower sea levels ~120 m / ~400 ft, land bridge and coastal migration implications).

13.  UAP disclosure reporting and statements from 2024–2026 period regarding non-human intelligence, archaeological implications, and institutional narrative control (various government releases and public commentary).

14.  Personal and philosophical context drawn from the author’s body of work, including The Politics of Heaven (forthcoming 2027) and The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, on hidden motivations, narrative erasure, resilience, and layered history.

15.  Additional cross-references: Graham Hancock-style alternative history perspectives on lost civilizations and global monument distribution (for color and contrast with mainstream timelines); Book of Enoch and related ancient texts on earlier presences and spiritual layers (as interpretive framework in the author’s writing).

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Rich Hoffman is an author, political consultant, and strategic advisor based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the creator of The Politics of Heaven—a unique framework that connects biblical theology, ancient history, and modern power structures to explain how moral alignment and spiritual forces shape global events. Blending real-world political experience with deep research into archaeology, UFO phenomena, and suppressed historical narratives, Hoffman offers compelling commentary on topics ranging from ancient civilizations and the Dead Sea Scrolls to modern populist movements, paranormal continuity, and leadership strategy in chaotic environments. As the author of The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business and the forthcoming Politics of Heaven, he brings a grounded yet provocative voice to media discussions, supported by firsthand experiences and a cross-disciplinary approach that bridges science, history, and theology. For interviews, speaking engagements, or expert analysis, visit richhoffmanbooks.com or contact directly via phone at 513-307-5815 or email at rhoffman@richhoffmanbooks.com.  If you’ve seen the movie, Disclosure Day and want to talk about it and the implications of Presidnet Trump’s UAP disclosures, let me know and we can bring some color to your coverage. https://richhoffmanbooks.com/media-inquiries-broadcast-topics-and-contact-info/?frame-nonce=ad51e7ecba I do have a firsthand UFO encounter to discuss.