What Louis De Cordier has said about Mataha Expedition
4 quotes · 1 episode · Aug 28, 2026
Louis De Cordier, Belgian artist and researcher who led the 2008 Mataha Expedition searching for the Lost Labyrinth of Egypt, has been quoted on Mataha Expedition 4 times in 1 episode of Danny Jones Podcast, most recently on August 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
De Cordier says the Mataha Expedition was the largest geophysical survey ever done on an Egyptian archaeological site at the time.
“at the time, according to the National Research Institute, it was the biggest geophysical survey in Egypt ever been done on an archaeological site”
Danny Jones Podcast: #426 - "I Scanned Egypt's Labyrinth & the Results Got Me Exiled" (Scans Revealed) | Louis De Cordier (Aug 28, 2026) · Listen from 7:46
De Cordier reports that the survey found hundreds of rooms and large walls beneath the giant stone foundation plate.
“they found like hundreds and hundreds of rooms and enormous big walls and grid structures. So they confirmed the existence of still huge remains”
Danny Jones Podcast: #426 - "I Scanned Egypt's Labyrinth & the Results Got Me Exiled" (Scans Revealed) | Louis De Cordier (Aug 28, 2026) · Listen from 8:19
De Cordier says Egyptian collaborators were threatened and asked him to pull the published findings, after which he was blacklisted.
“you are put on the blacklist and you're not able to enter egypt anymore”
Danny Jones Podcast: #426 - "I Scanned Egypt's Labyrinth & the Results Got Me Exiled" (Scans Revealed) | Louis De Cordier (Aug 28, 2026) · Listen from 16:09
De Cordier believes the findings became sensitive because the labyrinth was linked in the press to lost civilizations and halls of records.
“the labyrinth suddenly was connected to lost civilizations and and giant halls of records and so on and and it that it left the sphere of normal archaeology”
Danny Jones Podcast: #426 - "I Scanned Egypt's Labyrinth & the Results Got Me Exiled" (Scans Revealed) | Louis De Cordier (Aug 28, 2026) · Listen from 17:47
Episodes
#426 - "I Scanned Egypt's Labyrinth & the Results Got Me Exiled" (Scans Revealed) | Louis De CordierDanny Jones Podcast · Aug 28, 2026 · 2 h 36 min
Belgian researcher Louis De Cordier tells Danny Jones how his 2008 geophysical survey of Egypt's Hawara labyrinth got him blacklisted, and what later scans revealed.