Mataha Expedition
Event in History
Mataha Expedition 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 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
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 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 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
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.