What (still) lies beneath
Khafre Project update!
This week AstroTerica brings you an overdue update on perhaps the greatest and still developing esoteric news story of our times.
Back in March, I covered the sensational discovery of structures underneath the Giza Plateau – namely the Khafre pyramid, and there’s been a little bit of progress since the explosive (if slightly badly organised) reveal, of SAR scan results of the area.
If you haven’t already, please check out my previous article on what is potentially the biggest archeological news story of the century so far, so that you can catch up on what’s been going on.
This isn’t just a void. It’s a designed, functional underground complex.
The AstroTerica Substack, March 22, 2025
*REMINDER* Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Doppler Tomography uses satellite radar scans of the earth’s surface and principles of vibrational physics, to render a 3D image of whatever lies beneath the earth’s surface.
What is this new-fangled tech then?
Much of the critique of the project so far has been based around the fact the software Biondi has developed to interpret satellite data has not been laid out, for people to pick over. However, this proprietorial piece of kit is currently awaiting a patent which if granted will potentially make Biondi wealthier than Messrs Post-it, Tetra-pak, and Intel combined, so we’ve pretty much established he’s an intelligent chap - and is not going to open source that shiz, just at the moment.
When is it going to be peer-reviewed tho?
As Trevor Grassi details in this video - there are about a couple of hundred people in the world, who are qualified to peer review this data. None of them has refuted it so far.
Plus the same technique was applied by Biondi’s team in 2022 to detect magma deposits and the geological structure underneath Mount Vesuvius. Unsurprisingly this study was widely accepted and not controversial in any way.
The AstroTerica Substack, ‘What Lies Beneath’ March, 2025
Nevertheless - Biondi announced at the Cosmic Summit last weekend that they are submitting the paper for peer review in early July.
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This latest piece of work, which claims to show potential structures hundreds of meters underneath the Khafre pyramid, threatens to not so much upset the applecart of human history and archeology, but to strap the applecart onto a Space X rocket, and pilot it into the heart of sun.
Predictably, since my article back in March a ‘Dribble of Dibbles’ (collective name for Alt-history naysayers - IYKYK!) have been going into overdrive.
The original Dibble (Flint) managed to dust off his fedora and take it for a spin on the Piers Morgan show, where he poured a steaming hot cup of scorn onto the very notion that there could be anything meriting further investigation in these findings.
Dibble has less than a third of the amount of published and peer-reviewed academic papers, than Biondi, and his discipline is ancient seeds or some skull-crushingly dull neolithic nonsense, but he has not let any of that hold him back, bless him and let rip, rubbishing the project with gusto.
Similarly, Editor of Sceptic Magazine Michael Shermer, and a variety of science and archeology YouTubers denounced the original set of images as baseless.
Shermer, even shared this image of the Khafre pyramid (at the top of the frame) with the question, “What am I missing?”
The answer to his question, being quite simply, “the rest of the image Michael - you appear to have only included half of it!.”
As researcher Dakota Pilicy commented recently in a blog on Grahamhancock.com
What’s most frustrating about these critiques is the lack of engagement with the actual science. No Egyptologist, debunker, nor skeptic has directly challenged the documented methodology of SAR Doppler Tomography. Yet, we see the discovery’s media attention polluted with buzzwords like “Atlantis” or “Loch Ness Monster” to dismiss it as fringe. When legitimate science can be so quickly dismissed as pseudoscience by a single authority, we entrust the narrative, not only of Egypt, but of the human race unto a select few unelected and self-serving people. This is not skepticism, it is gatekeeping, and it is intellectual cowardice. The academics seem more concerned with protecting an established narrative rather than fostering open inquiry.
I will say, my initial impression was that the release of this info back in March does not seem to have been choreographed particularly well. The sneak peek of what was essentially an abstract, the absence of peer-review, the patent not yet being in place, and the esoteric leanings of some of the team’s cheerleaders and associates, meant that led the whole Parade-Raining Circus rolled into town.
The peak experience of this so far, has been arch comedy villain of Egyptology himself – Dr Zahi Hawass, iconic nemesis of OUR GRAHAM (as I like to call Graham Hancock - in an homage to the late, great, Cilla Black.)
Hawass finally took up a longstanding offer from Joe Rogan, to appear on his podcast. A cynic might well interpret his appearance as giving credence to the Khafre project. It appears to have been the main motivation for him going on JRE - leading many to speculate that this was a desperate spot of crisis management on behalf of the oft-maligned Egyptian Ministry of Culture.
“It’s all Bullsh*t!”
In the video clip which I’ve linked here, Hawass pooh-poohs the very idea that these scans show anything other than the fevered imagination of nutters who’ve been on the ayahuasca – and yet at no point, does he engage with the substance of the claims.
Nor does he understand the nature of the scan, the technology used, or the academic pedigree of the people involved. He dismisses the whole story with the air of a man whose reputational house of cards is built on a plateau undermined by a network of tunnels and rising water.
Hawass did not do himself, nor mainstream archeology, any favours on this JRE appearance. He spouted off a lot of incorrect stuff, aggrandising his own legacy and even claiming to have discovered the Osiris Shaft himself in the 1980’s when it was of course discovered by Selim Hassan in 1934.
This is a very silly edit of all the best / worst bits, if you want to save yourself the two hours of watching the original episode. Bear in mind, this is the man who has had a stranglehold on Egyptology for several decades and has prevented a great deal of research and excavations from taking place - actively standing in the way of further understanding of the mysteries of the Pyramids.
This included projects such as Louis de Cordier’s survey to excavate the Tunnels under Hawara, the potential Lost Labyrinth described by Herodotus - which may now be lost forever due to rising water levels. You can read more about that in his Substack linked here.
But what’s the new news?!
Anyway - back to the Khafre Project. A a couple of weeks ago, the Biondi / Malanga team gave an update at another organised press conference in Malta. They presented a detailed breakdown of their work in applying the technology termed by Trevor Grassi, ‘The Biondi Protocol’ (which sounds like a Frederick Forsyth b-side) to existing subterranean structures. This is the best way to stress test the method by examining things that are already proven to exist.
In front of the assembled audience of ancient history influencers, Biondi revealed their surveys of the Osiris Shaft, and the Mosul Damm in Iraq, amongst others. Their imaging produced similar information to the existing mapping, with some interesting anomalies that Biondi explains may be due to various issues with interpreting and rendering accompanying imagery.
You can watch the full presentation here - with lots of challenging questions from a highly knowledgeable audience, on the Project Unity YouTube channel, filmed by Jay Anderson.
In a mic-drop moment - Biondi also teased the news that the team have actually scanned the whole of the plateau, not just the Great Pyramid (2022) and Khafre Pyramid (2025).
And as a little taster of their future work, showed a preview of the data visualised all the way up to, but not including ,The Sphinx. Whatever they’ve uncovered there is yet to be made public. EEEK!!!!!
If you skip to the last 2 minutes of the video above, you can hear the gasps from the assembled crowd.
Then, last weekend the team gave a press conference and answered many technical questions about the methods used. If you are techy / engineering-minded, you might enjoy learning more about the project from this video of the press conference on Trevor Grassi’s channel. Biondi did confirm that in addition to the patent office reviewing his software, it is also currently undergoing an independent corroboration with a team at Stanford University led by Professor Howard Zebker.
The piecemeal and slightly chaotic nature of the way this story has developed, hindered by the language barrier - initially seemed a little painful to those of us who want the discovery to be true - but also want incontrovertible proof to put this whole ‘Pyramids were tombs’ business to bed once and for all.
But the more I learn, I wonder if their haphazard Italian style suits the long-game nature of what this team is trying to do. The drip-fed info gathers more evidence and public buy-in, and gradually builds a following for the team and their concept, plus establishes a movement, for want of a better word, behind them.
This is unconventional in academic circles - but as we see reflected in the poor calibre of mainstream academia - disingenuous Gate Keepers like Hawass and Dibble, academia is not what it was, and perhaps (was) never was (was, not was?) And so building a bullet-proof argument and an audience within the realm of social media is a genius move.
Check out my previous article for the esoteric implications of their discovery - suffice to say we need to swot up on our Edgar Cayce - before the Biondi / Malanga team reveal what they might have found underneath the Sphinx, and we’ll be diving into his work in this Substack very soon.
Astrologically, it’s also interesting that the Egyptian name for the Giza Plateau is rooted in the word for Taurus.
As mathematician Robert Edward Grant explains in his video summarising a recent visit to Egypt, the three pyramids on the plateau were sited to reflect the stars in Orion’s belt - which is in the constellation of Taurus.
So is it any wonder that this potentially seismic discovery takes place as we near the end of Uranus (revolution) in Taurus?
Next, we’ll delve into Uranus as it wraps up its Taurean journey - and what that means for us collectively and individually.
In the meantime, let me know what you think in the comments below - are you excited about these potential discoveries? And what would YOU like them to SAR scan next?
Until next time, my friends :)