Hawara
Place in History
Hawara has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Danny Jones Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Louis De CordierBelgian artist and researcher who led the 2008 Mataha Expedition searching for the Lost Labyrinth of Egypt
De Cordier maintains that structures above 20 meters are built from blocks while everything below is carved from bedrock.
“everything above 20 meters is built, like these blocks built, but everything below 20 meters is carved out of the mud rock, out of the bedrock”
Danny Jones Podcast: #426 - "I Scanned Egypt's Labyrinth & the Results Got Me Exiled" (Scans Revealed) | Louis De Cordier (Aug 28, 2026) · Listen from 33:19
De Cordier says the Egyptian government began excavating at Hawara in March without first draining the site as his preservation plan proposed.
“they started excavating and they are still excavating and it was complete shock”
Danny Jones Podcast: #426 - "I Scanned Egypt's Labyrinth & the Results Got Me Exiled" (Scans Revealed) | Louis De Cordier (Aug 28, 2026) · Listen from 30:16
De Cordier argues the 1820 canal was deliberately routed through the site and submerged the labyrinth's entrance.
“in 1820 there was a canal dug over the whole site which set the whole part surrounding the the pyramid itself underwater”
Danny Jones Podcast: #426 - "I Scanned Egypt's Labyrinth & the Results Got Me Exiled" (Scans Revealed) | Louis De Cordier (Aug 28, 2026) · Listen from 21:39
Podcasts
- Danny Jones Podcast · 1 episode
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.