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Scientists have released a new analysis to prove a 'vast city' is hidden underneath Egypt's Giza Pyramids.
Last week, the team in Italy and Scotland presented groundbreaking research that revealed enormous wells and chambers more than 4,000 feet beneath the Pyramid of Khafre.
If proven true, it could rewrite everything we thought we knew about ancient Egypt.
However, several experts outside the experiment weren't so convinced, calling the discovery a 'huge exaggeration' which has 'no basis in truth.'
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Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former minister of antiquities, warned: "The claim of using radar inside the pyramid is false, and the techniques employed are neither scientifically approved nor validated."
But, according to their analysis, the researchers determined 'a confidence level well above 85 percent' that the 'structures identified beneath the Pyramid of Khafre,' and 'other pyramids on the Giza Plateau,' exist.
Using radar technology, the team sent 'high-frequency electromagnetic waves' into the subsurface, and then analysed the way signals bounced back to map structures beneath the pyramid using 'a specialised algorithm.'
With the data, they created images that showed what looked like wells with spiral formations leading to massive chambers.
They cross referenced the structures with current architectural that's 'accessible to us today,' including the Pozzo di San Patrizio in Italy, said Nicole Ciccolo, the project's spokesperson.
However, Professor Lawrence Conyers, an archaeology-focused radar expert at the University of Denver who wasn’t part of the research, said: "To make correlation confidence levels, there needs to be something to correlate to or compare to.
"What could that be here? Without that, these percentages are meaningless scientifically."
That said, Conyers acknowledged that there could be some small structures, like shafts or tunnels, beneath the pyramids - maybe even predating them.
He pointed out that 'Mayans and other peoples in ancient Mesoamerica often built pyramids on top of the entrances to caves or caverns that had ceremonial significance to them.'
The researchers claim they found eight wells and two massive chambers about 2,000 feet under the pyramid, and 'an entire hidden world' of even more structures another 2,000 feet below that.
"I am sceptical of the deeper claims. If their 'algorithms' can do what they say - I can't comment on those - then perhaps this will hold up," Professor Conyers added.
"A 'well' or 'tunnel' is what I would expect under a pyramid."
So far, the research hasn’t been published in any peer-reviewed scientific journal, which means it's yet to be verified by independent experts.
