What happened in this episode?
Louis De Cordier tells the Danny Jones Podcast that his 2008 “Mataha expedition” at Hawara, conducted with Ghent University and Egypt’s National Research Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics, used multiple geophysical methods to survey the site associated with the ancient “Labyrinth of Egypt”. He says the team presented findings to Egyptian authorities and that international media coverage followed, before he alleges officials demanded the online journal publication be removed, collaborators were threatened, and he was blacklisted from entering Egypt.
He also describes later satellite-scan work (which he dates to 2014–2015) that he claims indicates large, deep underground voids beneath Hawara. De Cordier further alleges scans show a large metallic element, and says NDAs governed circulation of some imagery. In 2025 he says he learned the Egyptian government began excavations at Hawara in early March after draining parts of the site, and he expresses uncertainty about how deep authorities intend to go.
The conversation ranges into critiques of academic archaeology, proposals for a high-tech field station using boreholes and robotic/laser mapping, and discussion of disputed scan claims under the Giza plateau. De Cordier also outlines a separate ‘Biblioteca del Sol’ project in Spain intended as a physical archive against catastrophic solar events, before moving into speculative ideas about solar cycles, geomagnetism, and civilisational collapse.
