Cave of the Birds (Tomb of the Birds)

36.16 - MU Podcast - Beneath the Pyramids

Mysterious UniverseOct 23, 2026

Hosts Joe Hodgkin and Brandon Thomas recount Andrew Collins' 2009 book 'Beneath the Pyramids', which describes his search for a forgotten cave system beneath the Giza plateau first entered by Henry Salt and Giovanni Caviglia in 1817. Collins, his wife Sue and researcher Nigel Skinner-Simpson repeatedly entered the Tomb of the Birds and found natural caverns with apparent chisel marks, while dodging guards, bats and toxic guano dust. The story ends with a local legend of a giant guardian serpent protecting a Hall of Records, and with Zahi Hawass promising documentation that never arrived.