{"id":3922820,"date":"2025-11-14T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/heres-a-detailed-look-into-the-mysterious-osiris-shaft-beneath-the-pyramids-of-giza\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:05:19","slug":"heres-a-detailed-look-into-the-mysterious-osiris-shaft-beneath-the-pyramids-of-giza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/heres-a-detailed-look-into-the-mysterious-osiris-shaft-beneath-the-pyramids-of-giza\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s A Detailed Look Into The Mysterious Osiris Shaft Beneath The Pyramids Of Giza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YouTube Video Here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/quUtlWTB_dc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1<\/a><\/p>\n

If you travel to the Giza plateau, you should know that there are many incredible things to explore, in addition to the three main pyramids.<\/p>\n

One such fantastic feature is the so-called Tomb of Osiris, or commonly referred to as the Osiris Shaft.<\/p>\n

Located beneath the stone causeway of the Pyramid of Khafre, this enigmatic tomb is a mysterious structure composed of various intricately carved levels beneath the surface.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that its existence has been known for a few years, it wasn\u2019t until recently that the structure was adequately excavated and documented.<\/p>\n

In ancient times, the shaft was used by people as a swimming hole since it was filled with water.<\/p>\n

Selim Hassan and his team were one of the first to explore the shaft in the 1930<\/strong>\u2018s, but it wasn\u2019t until 1999 when the structure was fully excavated by Zahi Hawass. By 1999 the water levels at the Giza plateau had lowered to the point that a detailed excavation was possible.<\/p>\n

Here is Selim Hassan\u2019s description of the Osiris Shaft:<\/p>\n

Selim Hassan\u2019s 1933-34 excavations report for Giza<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUpon the surface of the causeway, they first built a platform in the shape of a mastaba, using stones taken from the ruins of the covered corridor of the causeway. In the centre of this superstructure, they sank a shaft, which passed through the roof and floor of the subway running under the causeway to a depth of about 9.00 m. At the bottom of this shaft is a rectangular chamber, in the floor of the eastern side of which is another shaft. This descends about 14.00 m. and terminates in a spacious hall surrounded by seven burial-chambers, in each of which is a sarcophagus. Two of these sarcophagi, which are of basalt and are monolithic, are so enormous that at first,\u00a0we wondered if they contained the bodies of sacred bulls.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It was revealed that the shaft is composed of three different levels.<\/p>\n

The first level was found to be empty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The second<\/strong> level is a tunnel that leads into a room with six<\/strong> other chambers<\/strong> carved out of the stone walls. Inside these chambers, researchers have recovered pottery sherds, ceramic beads, and ushabtis (small servant figurines).<\/p>\n

Furthermore, basalt sarcophagi were found in Chambers C, D, and G; badly decomposed skeletal remains were found in the sarcophagi in Chambers C and G. Based on stylistic grounds the artifacts, sarcophagi included, date to Dynasty 26 (ibid<\/strong>: 386-87<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

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An overview of the Osiris Shaft.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the lowest chamber of the Osiris shaft, some 30 meters below the surface lies a mystery described by Herodotus, which was written off as a myth by mainstream scholars.<\/p>\n

However, it turned out that Herodotus was right all along, and mainstream scholars were wrong.<\/p>\n

The lowest chamber of the shaft is a sort of subterranean<\/strong> hall<\/strong>, and inside it lies a sarcophagus, perfectly preserved and empty. The third level of the Osiris Shaft is found to be more complex regarding design and architecture.<\/p>\n

The most important discovery made in the third level of the Osiris Shaft was red-polished pottery, containing traces of white paint. Experts managed to date back the pottery remains to the 6thy dynasty, from the end of the Old Kingdom.<\/p>\n

This means that the pottery recovered in the third level is,\u00a0in fact, the oldest possible datable material in the entire complex.<\/p>\n

Based on research and archeological evidence recovered throughout the years, the Osiris Shaft is believed to date originally from the Old Kingdom, more precisely to the Sixth Dynasty (2355-2195 BCE).<\/p>\n

The Osiris shaft was opened to the public for the first time in 2017.<\/p>\n

Recently, author and researcher Brien Foerster<\/a><\/strong> explored the Osiris Shaft.<\/p>\n

The result?<\/p>\n

A magnificent insight into the mysterious shaft proving that despite the fact that we know a lot about ancient Egypt, there are many details we have still not uncovered.<\/p>\n

Check out the video:<\/p>\n

Brien Foerster and his team will return to the Giya plateau in April 2019. For more information check this out<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Zahi Hawass\u2019s essay about the Osiris Shaft can be downloaded from this link:\u00a0The Discovery of the Osiris Shaft at Giza<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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YouTube Video Here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/quUtlWTB_dc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1<\/p>\n

If you travel to the Giza plateau, you should know that there are many incredible things to explore, in addition to the three main pyramids.<\/p>\n

One such fantastic feature is the so-called Tomb of Osiris, or commonly referred to as the Osiris Shaft.<\/p>\n

Located beneath the stone causeway of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}