When you say dead end. The cave became small and went no farther. Or the cave was silted up or the cave was collapsed.
I have dug open many "dead ends". Funny thing. they kept going afterwards.. _____ From: Karen Perry [mailto:txcavem...@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:34 AM To: SS Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Caves under Giza I know the cave of which you speak. It does do a dead end and there are no leads. Hawass had it checked out about 8 or 9 years ago. I know as I was on the team. Sorry to pop your bubble. Most of all the caves I have visited in Egypt are like the one shown in the program, tunnel like, dry & dusty with little formations. The Egyptian Fruit Bats are really cute oh K --- On Sat, 9/18/10, SS <back2scool...@hotmail.com> wrote: From: SS <back2scool...@hotmail.com> Subject: [Texascavers] Caves under Giza To: "'CaveTex'" <texascavers@texascavers.com> List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010, 12:03 PM There was an episode of "Chasing Mummies" on this morning and they entered a tomb that intersects a natural cave just a few thousand feet from the pyramid. They Guestimated the length to be 300' but without a survey it's anyone's guess. Looked pretty big to me. They were walking the entire time. Of course the two large passages dead ended. But we all know without a survey and digging the leads you can't say it's a dead end. As large as the cave was it could defiantly extend under the plateau. And where there is one cave...