Hall of Records
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Ibn Sofian, Nazlet El-Semman, Al Haram, Giza Governorate, Egypt Print route »
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The Hall of Records is a mythical ancient library rumoured to be deposited at the time of King Imhotep at Giza in Egypt. One suggestion has been that it is under one of the paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza, which is in the Giza pyramid complex.The Hall has been said by some historical commentators, including Manetho and Plutarch, to house the knowledge of the Pre-Dynastic Founders and latter Egyptians on papyrus, as well as several inscribed golden metal plate scrolls with a partial history of the lost civilisation of Atlantis, much as the Great Library of Alexandria housed Grecian knowledge.
There is little evidence to indicate that the Hall of Records ever existed. Some scientists (such as Robert M. Schoch with Dr. Thomas L. Dobecki) have used ground-penetrating radar and it has shown there are cavities underneath the Great Sphinx. In 1998, Zahi Hawass, Chief Director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, undertook excavations beneath the main body of the Sphinx at Giza and rediscovered access tunnels to several large, apparently natural, caves directly under the Sphinx. No artefacts were found at that time and a survey was undertaken to assess any potential threats in the substrate that might affect the ancient monument above. There was evidence of earlier ancient excavations. Hawass commented in a documentary about the 1998 excavations that he suspected that there could be other cavities beneath the structure, based on the evidence of the small watercourse that had caused some minor structural damage to stonework on the flank of the Sphinx.
