Well-known Giza researcher Nigel Skinner-Simpson has told Phenomena that he has serious doubts about recent reports that there is a tunnel leading from the Sphinx to one of the Giza pyramids. "It has been reported that Dr Hawass recently stated in a lecture that he had opened a 45ft long tunnel leading from the Sphinx towards [a pyramid]...I understand that according to the story, this was not one of the tunnels already known about. I can assure you that this is bunk." Mr Skinner-Simpson, who maintains a website devoted to subterranean chambers and tunnels at Giza, made the comments after attending a London lecture given by Dr Hawass. "What he said tonight was that he had cleared a tunnel 45 ft long leading into the body of the Sphinx and that it ended in a dead end - a rather different matter," Mr Skinner-Simpson told Phenomena. He also passed on some other news of interest mentioned during the lecture. Apparently Dr Hawass told the audience that he is hoping to investigate the Queen's Chamber "airshaft doors" further in 2005 - which seems to go against current reports that further work will be done in December 2003. Dr Hawass did say, however, that he is about to begin the search to see if the shafts emerge on the exterior of the pyramid.
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