Let's find Khufu today!

Let's find Khufu today!

German Association for Archaeological Knowledge kindly invites everyone to participate in the fundraising for preparatory and excavation works in Egypt. The association is an official partner of the international project Mission Pharaoh. Organizations associated with the project have been searching for the tomb of King Khufu (known worldwide as Cheops), the builder of the Great Pyramid in Giza, for more than 20 years.

In recent months, using ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, we have determined the exact location of the tomb and the most convenient way to reach it from the village of Nazlet-El-Samman. Due to numerous inquiries about the possibility of supporting current works, we have launched this fundraiser.

As of today, Mission Pharaoh needs 100,000 €

to bring the project into the next phase. We intend to spend the collected funds on:

1. Cleansing the area with heavy equipment to a depth of 1.5-2 metres,

2. GPR verification tests after cleansing the area,

3. Obtaining an official permit for excavations and carrying out the excavations.

4. Operational activities in Egypt

Join us!

We are waiting for You

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Current achievements of the project

For many years, Mission Pharaoh has been searching for all kinds of lost artefacts and monuments from the times of ancient Egypt.

In 2006, Mission Pharaoh, in cooperation with the Egyptian Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), conducted a series of GPR surveys in the vicinity of the pyramids at the Giza Plateau, which were the basis for later conclusions regarding the location of the tomb of Khufu.

In 2008, in cooperation with scientists from the University of Cairo and the Institute of Geology of the University of Wroclaw, Mission cleansed the area and carried out GPR surveys in the area of the Pyramid of Hawara. Immediately after cleansing the area of the Hawara Necropolis, two mummies, a golden mask, and two crocodile skeletons were found.

In 2009, at the conference summarizing the excavations in Hawara, a report was presented confirming the high probability that the indicated places lead to a labyrinth described by Herodotus in the 5th century BC. Members of Mission Pharaoh were then honoured by the Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Cairo, Prof. Dr. Alaa el-din M. Shaheen, for their contribution to this project. The work continues to this day by the Egyptian authorities.

At the same time, Mission Pharaoh conducted analyses of research works, documents, and sky maps from the time of the construction of the Great Pyramid, which clearly indicate the place where the tomb of the builder, King Khufu, was hidden. To the best of our knowledge, the solution to the millennia-old mystery of the Builder's burial place is geometric. The Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and the Builder's Tomb are all connected. By determining an equilateral triangle whose vertices are located at the location of the right foot of the Sphinx, the south-east corner of the Great Pyramid and in the village of Nazlet-El-Samman, the location of the tomb of King Khufu can be indicated.

The village area has been seen as the location of King Khufu's palace-temple complex for many years, as shown in visualisations prepared by Harvard University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAoaaLhRFE&t=127s,

as well as scientific works by such authorities as Dr. Zahi Hawass:

https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/images/MFA-images/Giza/GizaImage/full/library/hawass_diss_1987.pdf (e.g. plan 10 on page 778). To our knowledge, the tomb of Khufu is located in the immediate vicinity of the palace-temple complex mentioned above.

In October 2022, we performed, by our own means, GPR scans (with a range of up to 30 meters) of two sites in the village of Nazlet-El-Samman, directly bordering the Giza Plateau, which confirmed our geometric calculations.

Looking for cooperation on a full-scale archaeological project, we informed scientists from the NRIAG Institute in Cairo and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), which coordinates the work of Japanese scientists in Egypt, about the results of our research. Just one month after the presentation of our results, Egyptian scientists began preliminary archaeological research at site no. 2, led by American archaeologist Dr. Mark Lehner.

Today, Mission Pharaoh is trying to expand the research area to a place considered by us to be the most convenient path to the tomb of King Khufu (site no. 1) and the secrets of the ancient world hidden there.

Join the project now.

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