The Secret Chamber and Tunnels of Egypt’s Great Sphinx

The Secret Chamber and Tunnels of Egypt’s Great Sphinx

Digital rendering of a potential underground system of tunnels under the Sphinx. Credit: Greek Reporter archive At sunrise, the tunnels around the Sphinx do what they have always done: they make people slow down and start imagining what might be hidden just out of sight. There are real holes, shafts, and odd little voids around the monument, but the leap from “there is an opening” to “there’s a vast underground maze” is where the story usually o…