Very interesting story...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-495538/Eighth-wonder-world-The-stunning-temples-secretly-carved-ground-paranormal-eccentric.html

if it hadn't been a BBC article I might have thought you made it up! and the article is from 2007.

but they have their own web site:

http://www.damanhur.org/

The wonder is that this has been so little known for so long, strange in the internet age. Why is all the bubblegum stuff the subject of ,say, Yahoo news? Why isn't stuff like this? Oh ABC did.

Hmm sounds a little cultish. Still, the artwork and excavation are amazing.

Actually the ABC News article on them is more interesting and detailed. How did they do the carving of the rock????
I have trouble digging 4 feet in the dirt!

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/popup?id=4210038
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4216350&page=1

Anyway, thanks for the link.

I spent some time reading their material on the web site, and also some third party commentary. The leader, "Falco", seems to have had legitimate experience with astral projection and non-physical contact when he was young. The images came from his "memory". The current commune seems to run on a more eco-sustainability basis, with some of the mystical pre-christian religous influences. The sense I got overall is that it is a noble and well-grounded movement, but that it requires an "all-in" commitment to really make it work. And what happens when you have been part of a community like that for 10-20 years, and you finally decide that you want out? Well, you have not made any money in all that time, and all you have is the community, so some law suits have ensued, all of which were dismissed, I think. Anyway the artistic achievement of the temples is astounding.

:)
Some of these amazing paintings are alive !
This means that they are gates to real worlds in higher dimensions