His description later prompted scholar Athanasius Kircher to create a plan of the underground structure.
Athanasius Kircher was a polymath whose work spanned numerous fields, including geology, biology, medicine, music, and ancient languages.
Between 1650 and 1654, Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) published four volumes of "translations" of hieroglyphs in the context of his Coptic studies. However, according to Steven Frimmer, "none of them even remotely fitted the original texts". In Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Kircher argued under the impression of the Hieroglyphica that ancient Egyptian was the language spoken by Adam and Eve, that Hermes Trismegistus was Moses.