I came across this about a week ago when I was watching a Danny Jones podcast.

He had Louie Dordier on. He’s a Belgian researcher who published results of a scanning expedition that the Egyptian government didn’t want published.

I watched the episode and then I spent about 2 days going down every thread that I can find on this and I think it’s one of the most important active archaeological stories out there right now.

So, I wanted to dig in a little bit. It starts with Herodotus. Around 450 BC, Herodotus traveled through Egypt, but he’d already seen the pyramids.

So he went to a place called Hwara in the Fume region about 60 mi southeast of Cairo and he wrote this.

It surpasses even the pyramids. It has 12 courts covered with gates facing one another, six on the north and six on the south.

Inside it’s beyond words, passages and chambers winding endlessly, halls upon halls. He counted 3,000 rooms across two levels, roughly half above ground and half below.

The underground section was sealed and the priest that was showing him around told him that nobody was allowed down there.

And when he asked why, they said those chambers held the burial vaults of the kings who built the place originally before a Menhat III, before the pharaohs, before whoever was there before all that.

Now, Herodotus alone you might want to take with a grain of salt. He was known to embellish a little bit, but he wasn’t the only one who went there.

There were six ancient writers across several centuries. And they all physically walked through the structure, and they all described the same thing, more impressive than the pyramids, more complex than anything in Greece.

A building so large and intricate that none of them can even find the right words for it.

And across those six writers, there was no contradictions. All of them said the same thing about what they saw while they were physically standing there.

And at some point after that, the structure was just gone. When and why is pretty unclear.

The theory that latched on is that the building was cried for building material during the tomic period and the stone was hauled off and reused elsewhere.

That would explain why the excavation in Hara in 1888 found only the eroded mudbrick core of a manhati’s pyramid in some scattered stonework.

They didn’t find anything resembling 3,000 rooms. So the researcher Petri concluded that the labyrinth was gone and that held up for well over a century.

Here’s the thing about the quarrying theory, though. Herodotus counted the rooms. Strabo wrote about the ceiling heights.

Ply wrote about the light in the upper chambers. You can’t observe any of that if the building is rubble.

So whatever happened happened after Herodotus visited in 450 BC. And Herodotus was already living in what most people would consider an ancient world.

That’s how old this thing was when it disappeared. Louie Dordier is a Belgian visual artist.

He knows he’s not an archaeologist or a scientist. So what he did in 2008 was bring together people who are.

He organized a collaboration between Egypt’s own National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geoysics, Gent University in Belgium and his own foundation.

They got official permission from the Egyptian Council of Antiquities under Zahi Hwas and went to Hara with ground penetrating radar and electromagnetic scanning equipment.

Side note, it’s kind of funny how Has said he doesn’t believe in any of this technology.

He said the data is wrong and it’s when he was on Rogan and talking about what they found under the Giza plateau from the Bondi scans.

He called the radar scanning technology impossible, and meaningless. And then Egypt proceeded to officially excavate at Hara based partly on radar scanning data.

I don’t have great confidence in that guy. And if you watch the podcast when he was on Rogan, you would understand why.

At 8 to 12 m below the surface, the scans found vertical walls forming roomlike spaces spread across an area the size of 10 football fields.

Right where every ancient description says the labyrinth should be. Petri had found a large horizontal stone featured during his dig decades earlier and figured it was the foundation of the destroyed complex.

The 2008 scan suggested it might actually be a ceiling, which would mean that the structure underneath is intact, sealed in and sitting there in groundwater below the surface.

The team presented the findings publicly at Gent University in 2008. And a few weeks after that, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Activities sent a word to stop all communication about the findings.

National security, they said Dordier waited 2 years for Egypt to release the data officially, but by June of 2010, it was clear that that wasn’t happening.

So, he posted everything on his own website, and thank you for that. In 2015, a company called Merlin Burroughs ran satellite imaging over Hara using technology originally developed to locate nuclear submarines and underground bunkers.

They found what appeared to be a large rectangular structure underground, consistent with the 2008 findings.

That work carried with it a 10-year non-disclosure agreement that expired in 2025, which is a big part of why this story is coming back so hard within the last year or so.

Since then, the Coffrey project led by Filippo Beyond has also scanned Hara, and Polish and Egyptian teams from the University of Warclaw and Cairo University have found similar anomalies in the same area.

Four separate scanning technologies from four organizations all finding the same thing in the same place.

Something large with what appeared to be four underground levels with chambers still intact below the surface.

One of those missions also found something at the center of the structure. A large anomaly reading as metallic about 40 m across sitting in what looks like a purpose-built chamber around it.

Military databases cataloging underground structures worldwide apparently have nothing comparable. Some researchers have connected it to ancient Egyptian texts describing a large circular sacred object at the heart of the complex.

What it actually is, nobody can actually say with certainty until they dig down there and put their eyes on it.

And even then, there’ll probably be questions. On May 7th, 2026, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed new fieldwork at Hara.

Egyptian le with Ashra Sabi, the director of General Fume Antiquities running the mission. In June 2026, a researcher named Muhammad Ibrahim got access to the dig and filmed it.

In July 2026, the footage went up that showed a megalithic wall that was being uncovered.

These were huge work stones at depth right where the scans said they would be.

After 17 years of Egypt saying that there’s nothing significant down there, they’re finally digging.

The thing that stands out to me is what the priest told Herodotus about why the underground section was sealed.

They said the vault held the kings that built the labyrinth in the first place.

Amenhat III built his pyramid at Hara around 1850 BC. That’s already 1,400 years before Herodotus showed up and asked about it.

But the priests weren’t describing Amenhat III as the original builder. They were telling Herododus that he built around something that was already there, something whose builders were already there before the Feronic period.

Six writers described this building across several centuries. The location matches, the scale matches what the scans are showing underground.

Everything they could physically walk through and observe has been consistent with what archaeology and scanning have found.

And the priests were on point about all of it. So when those same priests said the sealed underground section held the kings who came before the pharaohs, we have to assume that that is also correct.

If the 2026 excavations reach those chambers and confirm what those priests were saying, it doesn’t just nudge the Egyptian timeline back a bit.

It completely rewrites everything that is ancient Egyptian history. A lot of coverage on this is focused on whether the labyrinth physically survived or not.

But the scans I think have basically settled that at this point. What I want to know is who were the builders?

What’s in the part that was sealed off even to Herodotus? And what is the metal object sitting at the center of this structure?

What if the labyrinth wasn’t built around kings who lived and died in Egypt? What if it was built around the place where they arrived?

The 40 meter metallic object sitting at the center of the structure with a purpose-built structure around it is like something you’d build around something that was already there.

Something that came down at that location and stayed. Maybe that’s how the kings arrived in the first place and then they built around it and treated it as a sacred site.

That’s more of a thought than anything. I don’t have any evidence to back that up.

But what made me think of it was all the talk recently about we have these underground UFOs that crash that are too large to move.

So what do we do? We built structures around them. It’s more on the tin foil hat side, but I guess anything could be possible.

What do you think they’re going to find down there? And do you think they’re going to go deep enough to figure out what that metallic object is?

And more importantly, if they do figure it out, are they even going to tell us?

Has a pretty good track record of gatekeeping information, just purely denying the facts. So, who knows?

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