Scientist discovered a hidden corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza. Image: Pixabay
Hidden corridor discovered in Great Pyramid of Giza [video]
The hidden corridor is nine metres long and was found close to the main entrance of the 4 500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza.
Scientist discovered a hidden corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza. Image: Pixabay
Researches from the Scan Pyramids project by the Egyptian tourism ministry of antiquities discovered a hidden corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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CORRIDOR CLOSE TO ENTRANCE OF THE PYRAMID
The hidden corridor is nine metres long and was found close to the main entrance of the 4 500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza. Egyptian antiquities officials announced the discovery on Thursday. They said that it’s possible that this could lead to further finds.
The discovery within of the pyramid was made under the Scan Pyramids project.
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DISCOVERY COULD CONTRIBUTE TO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CONSTRUCTION
The journal Nature said that the discovery could contribute to knowledge about the construction of the pyramid. As well as the purpose of a gabled limestone structure that sits in front of the corridor.
The Great Pyramid was built as a monumental tomb around 2560 BC during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu.
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The unfinished corridor was most likely made to redistribute the pyramid’s weight around either the main entrance which is now used by tourists.
Head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri said that this was almost seven metres away, or around another as yet undiscovered chamber or space.
‘We’re going to continue our scanning so we will see what we can do … to figure out what we can find out beneath it, or just by the end of this corridor,’ he told reporters after a press conference in front of the pyramid.
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Scientists detected the corridor through cosmic-ray muon radiography. They got images of it by feeding a 6mm-thick endoscope from Japan through a tiny joint in the pyramid’s stones.
