Secret Chamber Revisited: The Quest for the Lost Knowledge of Ancient Egypt

by Robert Bauval

A firsthand, behind-the-scene account of the controversies surrounding modern explorations at Giza

• Investigates the recent scandals at Giza and claims of secret excavations and tunneling inside the Great Pyramid

• Reveals the historical evidence in support of secret chambers in the Great Pyramid and beneath the Great Sphinx

• Exposes the secret agendas behind the latest explorations on the Giza plateau

Since 1993 Robert Bauval has been embroiled in the many controversies involving the search for the lost treasures of the pyramid builders and the quest for the legendary Hall of Records of Atlantis. The strange but true story that he unfolds implicates American business moguls, the prestigious National Geographic Society, several Ivy League universities, the Edgar Cayce Foundation, the Freemasons, Christian fundamentalists, Zionists, and the Egyptian government.

In this fully updated edition of Secret Chamber, including new color photographs, Robert Bauval pursues his in-depth investigation of clandestine events at Giza and the role played by the controversial ex-Minister of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass. What lies behind the mysterious doors at the end of the star shafts in the Great Pyramid? What do the mysterious inscriptions found behind the Gantenbrink door mean? What is the real purpose of the Relief Chambers and the red ochre “graffiti” in them? Who is behind the secretly tunneling and excavating in these chambers, and why? Is there really a hidden Hall of Records from Atlantis beneath the Great Sphinx? Is the Great Pyramid just a tomb or does it serve a higher purpose involving a lost science of immortality? Why do the ancient texts ascribe the Pyramid’s design to the supreme god of wisdom Thoth, the writer of the fabled Books of Hermes? Will the Great Pyramid prove to be the “missing link” to our true origins or a “metaphysical machine” to access the world beyond?

Providing a firsthand account of the strange events that have taken place at the Giza plateau in the last three decades, Bauval reveals the hidden agendas behind these events and raises important questions about the meaning of Egypt’s ancient structures and the very origins of civilization.

592 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 2014

About the author

Robert Bauval was born in Egypt in 1948. A construction engineer, his interest in Egyptology is longstanding, having lived in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East for much of his life. In the 1980s, he developed a line of study linking the pyramids and the so-called Pyramid Texts with astronomy and famously published the best-selling The Orion Mystery. He has also written three books with best-selling author Graham Hancock (The Message of the Sphinx, Talisman, and The Mars Mystery).

Reviews

[Lanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Robert Bauval believes there are hidden chambers on the Giza plateau.

The majority of this book is an account of 20 years of plots and counter plots in the hallowed halls of cryto-history. Retold in minute detail Bauval explains that his search for the truth has been hampered by the evil forces of the Egyptian archaeological establishment, the Freemasons, and Edgar Cacey conspirators who want to steal his research.

He also complains that although he is a proper researcher who knows the truth, he is being called a crank by who measure pyramids and predict the second coming.
He goes to great lengths to tell us that he is not like that, it's all someone elses fault, and it's just not fair.

In the end it was just dull, a re-hashed tantrum in a very old pram.

[Dee Marks · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well...

A book that promises much and appears to deliver until a little over half way through. It then descends into a blow by boring blow account of the authors fight with the egyptologist hawass. While this does expose the difficulties writers and others have experienced getting access to giza it hardly needed nearly half a book to tell! I was thoroughly bored and very frustrated. But kept reading thinking bauvall might finally get somewhere. He didn't...
Further he has a pretty confusing position on Edgar cayces work. And a rather narrow minded one at that.
Maybe give it a miss.

[Boris · Rating 2 out of 5]

This absolutely grinds to a halt with one digression after another on comparative religion, Hermeticism, Masonry, Rosicrucianism, Egyptian 'magic' thru language, the politics, melodrama and internecine politics of that various actors in the Edgar Cayce foundation, the Egyptian Antiquities department and other journalists, historians, academics, etc.

Why is that when quoting religious scripture, mystics or philosophers, they always resort to tortuous,turgid and metaphorically abstruse prose? I would think they could state their case simply. One's eyes simply glaze over when quoting ad infinitum passages from the various sources.

I strongly disagree with Bauval in asserting that the three great pyramids were built in the 4th dynasty. People knowledgeable in geology and engineering (Robert Shoch for one) would strongly disagree.

I am interested in the history, archeology and technology of the Egyptians monuments. There could be a hidden chamber but that goes with just about every theology out there; some location where all of the 'records' are stashed to be found at some indeterminate point in the future.

Three stars for some of the factual information contained, one star for the overall structure of the book. Bauval badly needed an editor on this one.

[Klaas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I agree with one of the other readers that until a bit further then halfway it is promising but when he starts the fight with Hawass and Lehner and later on Gantenbrink it was too much, I am not at all interested in that kind of stories. But as I said, the beginning was promising and I also learned some new things about the Great Pyramid which I hope to visit in the beginning of next year.
On the other hand, it helped me to restart reading Francis A. Yates’s book Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition which I had started a few years ago but failed to finish, thanks for that.