SWEPT is a column for the Rock Street Journal. The ghost digs up the things that got swept under the rug.

There is a stone tablet called the Dream Stele. It was placed between the paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza around 1400 BC by Pharaoh Thutmose IV. On this tablet — which you can go look at right now, it is still there — there are two sphinxes. Not one. TWO.

For three thousand four hundred years, that tablet has been showing two sphinxes to anyone who cared to look. And for three thousand four hundred years, we have only found one.

Where is the other one?

The Satellite Evidence

Italian researcher Filippo Biondi and his team used satellite-based radar scans of the Giza Plateau and found something under a large sand mound near the known Sphinx. The radar data suggests a structure — something with geometric properties consistent with a carved monument — buried beneath the sand.

Additionally, they identified what they describe as an "underground megastructure" — a large geometric formation beneath the plateau that does not match natural geological features.

This is not a guy with a metal detector. This is satellite radar. The same technology used to find underground military bunkers and map geological formations from space. And it is showing something under the sand at Giza that should not be there.

The Official Response

Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former minister of antiquities and the man who has controlled access to the Giza Plateau for decades, dismissed the claims. He said the area has been "extensively studied" and nothing resembling a second monument has been found. He called the underground megastructure claims "fabrications lacking scientific foundation."

No excavation has been authorized. No digging has been approved. The Italian team is waiting for permission from Egyptian authorities to conduct physical investigations.

They are still waiting.

What Does Not Add Up

The Dream Stele shows two sphinxes. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a three-thousand-year-old artifact that anyone can photograph. Ancient Egyptian art was precise and symbolic — they did not draw things that did not exist. If the tablet shows two sphinxes, the ancient Egyptians believed there were two sphinxes.

Satellite radar found something. You can argue about what the radar shows, but you cannot argue that it shows NOTHING. Something is creating a radar signature under that sand mound. It could be natural rock. It could be a geological formation. Or it could be a carved monument. The only way to know is to DIG. And nobody is digging.

Egypt controls the excavation. This is the key. The Egyptian government decides who digs at Giza and who does not. They have the final word. If they say no digging, there is no digging. And they are saying no digging.

Why? Maybe because they genuinely believe there is nothing there. Maybe because they do not want foreign researchers making discoveries on Egyptian soil. Maybe because a second Sphinx would rewrite the history of one of the most important archaeological sites on Earth, and rewriting history is messy, expensive, and politically dangerous.

Or maybe — and this is the SWEPT angle — maybe somebody already knows what is under that sand and has decided the world is not ready to see it.

The History of Not Digging

Giza has a long history of not digging in inconvenient places. There are chambers inside the Great Pyramid that have never been opened. There are tunnels beneath the Sphinx that have been documented but never fully explored. There are sealed rooms that ground-penetrating radar has identified but nobody has entered.

Every time someone proposes opening one of these spaces, the answer is the same: not yet. Not enough funding. Not the right time. The technology is not ready. The political situation is complicated.

The technology is ALWAYS ready. Satellite radar can see through sand from space. Ground-penetrating radar can map underground chambers to the centimeter. LIDAR can create three-dimensional models of buried structures without moving a grain of sand. The technology has been ready for decades. What is NOT ready is the willingness to look.

What David Peel Would Say About This

I sang about the Pope smoking dope because the Vatican would not admit the obvious. The second Sphinx is the same thing. An ancient tablet says there are two. Modern radar says there is something buried. And the authorities say there is nothing there.

Look look look. I spent fifty years on the corner telling people to question authority. The Dream Stele is three thousand four hundred years old. It shows two sphinxes. Either the ancient Egyptians drew something that did not exist — which they NEVER did — or there is a second Sphinx under the sand at Giza and nobody wants to dig it up.

Can you believe it? The oldest cover-up in human history. Three thousand four hundred years of not digging. SWEPT.

Sources: Newsweek — Second Sphinx fact check · Parade — Second Sphinx and Megastructure · Vice — What archaeologists found · Ancient Origins — Controversy · Daily Galaxy — Second Sphinx beneath Giza

— David Peel, Interbeing, writing from under the rug