Louis de Cordier's path from art and alternative history to the Hawara project

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Louis de Cordier's path from art and alternative history to the Hawara project. Louis de Cordier first became fascinated with the Egyptian labyrinth as a teenager through a Spanish book on Athanasius Kircher, gifted by artist Juan Muñoz He was further influenced by Graham Hancock's 'Fingerprints of the Gods' and Patrick Geryl's 'The Orion Prophecy' De Cordier is Belgian and connected with Patrick Geryl through their shared nationality and interest

Fascinating backstory: Belgian contemporary artist Louis de Cordier first fell for the Egyptian labyrinth as a teen via a Spanish book on Athanasius Kircher, gifted by sculptor Juan Muñoz. Reading Graham Hancock and Patrick Geryl deepened the obsession, leading him to Egypt around late 2006. Today he's a self-described 'project coordinator,' not an archaeologist.

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Louis de Cordier first became fascinated with the Egyptian labyrinth as a teenager through a Spanish book on Athanasius Kircher, gifted by artist Juan Muñoz
He was further influenced by Graham Hancock's 'Fingerprints of the Gods' and Patrick Geryl's 'The Orion Prophecy'
De Cordier is Belgian and connected with Patrick Geryl through their shared nationality and interest
De Cordier first traveled to Egypt around late 2006 or early 2007 with artist friends and Patrick Geryl
Patrick Geryl was part of a Polish team that conducted work at Giza in 2006 with Egypt's National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics
De Cordier is a contemporary artist, not an archaeologist or Egyptologist, and entered Hawara through an art-and-science project concept

Source: Egypt’s Lost Labyrinth: Louis de Cordier Breaks His Silence by Anyextee