Overview
- Filippo Biondi, in a Thursday podcast appearance, said satellite radar and geometric lines point to a buried 'second Sphinx' under a sand mound about 100 to 180 feet high.
- He reported scans showing vertical shafts and horizontal tunnels that match features mapped under the known Sphinx, and he cited the Dream Stele’s twin-sphinx image as a clue to the spot.
- The team says it is drafting a proposal for Egyptian authorities to allow on-site study, and no excavation or peer-reviewed paper exists.
- Egyptologists and geophysicists, including Zahi Hawass, reject the claim as unsupported and say radar interpretations alone cannot verify a hidden monument.
- A Newsweek fact-check on Friday ruled the viral claim false and noted that remote-sensing tools cannot resolve deep, detailed structures without confirmation in the ground.