Beneath the Pyramids: Egypt's Greatest Secret Uncovered [Paperback]

Andrew Collins (Author)

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Publication Date: September 15, 2009

Beneath the pyramids of Egypt lies a lost underworld of catacombs, hewn chambers, and cave tunnels. They are alluded to in ancient texts and Arab legends, but have been left unexplored until today. They have now been rediscovered and investigated for the first time by science and history writer Andrew Collins. What exactly does this subterranean realm tell us about the pyramids, their relationship to the stars, and the mythical origins of Egyptian civilization? Lavishly illustrated with color photos, this is a breathtaking personal journey of exploration and discovery.

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About the Author

Andrew Collins is a science and history writer, and the author of various books that challenge the way we perceive the past. They include From the Ashes of Angels (1996), which shows that the Watchers of the book of Enoch were shamans responsible for the Neolithic revolution, and that their homeland the biblical Eden was southeast Turkey, where archaeologists have recently found the oldest stone temple in the world; Gods of Eden (1998), which reveals that Egyptian civilization is thousands of years older than is conventionally believed; Gateway to Atlantis (2000), which demonstrates that Plato s Atlantis was located in Cuba and the Bahamas, and The Cygnus Mystery (2006), which argues that veneration of the Cygnus constellation was responsible for the world s earliest sky religions. His latest book Beneath the Pyramids uncovers Egypt s cave underworld for the first time. Andrew, born in 1957, lives with his wife Sue near Marlborough, Wiltshire.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: A.R.E. Press (Association of Research & Enlig (September 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876045719
• ISBN-13: 978-0876045718
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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90 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Discovery Of The Century Draws Near, October 19, 2009

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This review is from: Beneath the Pyramids: Egypt's Greatest Secret Uncovered (Paperback)

When Edgar Cayce began in his trance readings to speak of an Egyptian Civilization that predated the one described by conventional archeology, he was "out on a (metaphysical)limb. His description of an age of builders, 8,000 years before the 3rd dynasty seemed out of line with accepted theory.

However, Cayce also said that the ancients, led by a charismatic High Priest named Ra Ta, and an architecht named Hermes, were contempory with a failing, and soon to vanish Atlantean civilization, dated by no less than Plato to 10,000 BCE!

In this important book, certain to be followed by others, Andrew Collins begins to answer the challenge posed by traditional archeology:"where is the evidence." He draws on overlooked reports of early archeology, as well as traditional wisdom, local legend, and textual evidence in known antiquities to build a powerful case that the evidence has been under everyones noses all along!

Drawing on all this material Collins puts theory into practice and rediscovers a vast complex of tunnels and caves under the giza plateau! Portions of which show obvious evidence of human alteration. He presents a powerful case that the mythical Hall of Records described by Cayce and many other ancient and modern mystics is located and can be accessed by exploring, and understanding this complex in the context of Egyptian tradition and wisdom.

Some will be dissappointed that Collins hasn't discovered the hall itself, but I think he is being careful and responsible: putting together the pieces of the puzzle in a way that honors the builders of that distant past, rather than playing the arrogant westerner imposing his views (or trying to)on a skeptical Egyptian Archeological establishment.

In the long run, I believe Collins and his approach will win over the doubters, led by Zahi Hawass, Director Of antiquities in Egypt. Then the real work of uncovering the Hall of Records, and presenting it's stored wisdom to a world ready to recieve it.

69 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Are you a 'seeker' or a 'tourist', November 12, 2009

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This review is from: Beneath the Pyramids: Egypt's Greatest Secret Uncovered (Paperback)

There are two types of readers/visitors to Egypt. One is a tourist who has little or no real interest in Egypt, does little or no investigation or research and knows little more than what they have seen in Indiana Jones movies or read in mass media books and magazines. By far and away, most people are tourists and, that's OK, if that's all you know and/or want to know.

Then, there are the 'seekers', i.e., those who sense, discern, feel or are drawn to things Egyptological because they 'seek' to know more about the world, at a deeper level than at just being a tourist. Andrew Collins book, 'Digging Beneath the Pyramids' is NOT for tourists and, for most seekers even, Andrew's 'Digging' may seem, at first glance, to be as one reviewer called it 'thin'.

Nothing could miss the mark more than this approach. I have been studying the Edgar Cayce material for over 40 years and have been infatuated with Egypt for over 50. During this time, I have read just about every book I, as a layman, could get my hands on regarding Egypt so have at least a limited layman's knowledge about what Andrew's book 'Digging is about...at least I think I do.

So, dear reader, allow me to share with you what I think is going on with 'Digging' and why this is one of the MOST important books on the whole question of rediscovery of the hidden roots of the human race to have come along in a long, long time.

Andrew's interest in Egypt (if you follow his website and his prior works...especially 'The Cygnus Mystery'), lays the groundwork for the discoveries that are described in 'Digging Beneath the Pyramids'. Why? Because Andrew and his researcher friends discovered that what Robert Bauval claimed, that a star system 'overlies' Giza indeed appears to be valid, and that the 'blueprint' of the entire Giza design is and WAS the ordering system of not ONLY the above ground monuments at Giza, but for a system that the Egyptian 'seekers' (initiates) knew about but who didn't share with the 'tourists' and that this system, was BELOW the Giza plateau.

What 'Digging Beneath the Pyramids' is, is a continuation of 'discovery/exploration by other means', by Andrew in that he is, step by step, as the expert 'Sherlock Holmes' that he is, would do. In 'Cygnus', the overall 'Plan' in the sky, the one that would be re-created on the ground for the entire Giza Plateau was through his and his research teams incredible insights, discerned and this was the 'pattern' that the very, very ancient Egyptians used to recreate the 'As Above, So Below' dictum of Hermes (who may well have been the architect of Giza).

Cygnus then became the 'prequel' to further exploration, necessary although necessarily limited. Necessary as a process and a methodology that provided a possible plan that the Egyptians used to 'map out' on the Ground, their beliefs of how souls came to the earth and returned...to the stars, in fact, in somehow becoming them.

Yet, Cygnus could not and did not PROVE the theory. The actual research, the exploration on the ground, of slowly accumulating the evidence that indeed Cygnus WAS recreated on the ground took time and 'proof of concept' to actually see if the 'facts fit the theory'.

'Digging Beneath the Pyramids' is the 'proof of concept' and showed, via Andrew's, his wife Sue's and his friend and colleague, Rodney Hale's meticulous analysis of the Giza Plateau, showing how the geometry of the plateau 'matches' the 'stellar plan', is the 'next step' in an ongoing research process that has now unequivocably led to PROOF that there ARE entrances to the DUAAT (the underground world that the Ancient Egyptians so circumspectly described in their Edfu and other temple and pyramid texts) may in fact exist.

To those 'tourists' whose vision insists that Andrew's 'Digging' is 'thin', my comment is this: Before Andrew's discovery of an underground passage system (which had been forgotten for almost 180 years) that leads 'somewhere' towards the Sphinx and Great Pyramid, literally hundreds of researchers over the centuries had found NOTHING. PLEASE THINK ON THIS. Before Andrew's (re)discovery of the hidden entrance at the very, very rear of the 'Tomb of the Birds' THERE HAS BEEN NO, ZERO, NADA physical evidence BY ANY RESEARCHER/EGYPTOLOGIST of ANYTHING EVEN HINTING at the existence of a subterranean 'world' described by Edgar Cayce or the ancient Egyptian texts.

'Digging Beneath The Pyramids' IS the discovery of the last 100 years, and potentially MUCH, MUCH greater than Carter's discovery of Tutankamun's tomb. Why? Because if Andrew's discovery does lead to where it may, ANDREW COLLINS DISCOVERY WILL UTTERLY CHANGE & REWRITE HUMAN HISTORY!

This is why 'Digging Beneath The Pyramids', to a 'tourist' is 'thin', but to ANY 'seeker', it is the unfolding of a process, one begun potentially over 12,500 years ago, and the rediscovery of the hidden history of mankind, hidden 'Beneath the Pyramids'.

How impactful has Andrew's discovery been? Watch the Actions of the Egyptian government and especially of Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. If, as I have been informed only today, Zahi Hawass installs, at the very rear of the 'entrance' to the 'Tomb of the Birds', the 'metal gate' to prevent further exploration into this labryinth beneath the Giza plateau, his prior dismissals of an 'inconsequential' finding, although Zahi will of course issue an appropriate 'safety cover story', those who follow the actions of Zahi before he retires to 'discover' the GREATEST of all archaeological 'prizes' in history, 'The Hall of Records', will see this move as an acknowledgment that Andrew's research, is indeed pregnant with the most wondrous possibilities...especially since the further one goes into this underground realm, the more evidence of human engineering of the passageway is seen.

If you are NOT a tourist in Egypt, if you are a 'seeker', 'Digging Beneath The Pyramids' is one of the MOST important books on how the process works, on the how's and why's the ancient Egyptians plan was a 'map' of a REAL and long ago lost record of who we WERE and who we may once again, may become.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Thumping Good Read....., November 10, 2009

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Howard W. Mccoy (Centreville, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beneath the Pyramids: Egypt's Greatest Secret Uncovered (Paperback)

There's nothing like a good mystery, right? Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie. Ngaio Marsh, Colin Dexter. Apply that kind of investigative approach to ancient history, Egyptian ancient history in particular -- the sifting through the sands of time, in an effort to uncover that elusive clue that will hopefully shed some light on that one (usually more than one) nagging question that the established scientific community cannot or wishes not to delve into -- and you have Beneath the Pyramids, a "thumping good read", by Andrew Collins.

Andrew Collins is no stranger to detective work. Well known for his meticulous inquiries into the relationship between the constellations of the night sky, notably Cygnus the Swan, and ancient structures on the ground, the author brings that wonderful hermetic axiom of "As Above, So Below" into sharp focus. Of course, "As Above, So Below" has little meaning if you aren't there in the middle to pull the two together. We have the pyramids in the middle. And we have the constellations above us. The question is, "What lies below?" Read Beneath the Pyramids and find out.