The Government of Egypt announced that they have found a 30-foot-long (9-metre long and 2.10-metre-wide) hidden corridor close to the main entrance of the iconic Great Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid is 4500 years old and is also known as the ‘Khufu Pyramid’. Egyptian antiquities officials said that this will lead to more further findings. This amazing discovery within the iconic pyramid was done under the Scan Pyramids project.
Pyramid Of Giza Has A Hidden Corridor
The Scan Pyramids project is using non-invasive technology like 3D simulations, infrared thermography, and cosmic-ray imaging to learn about the insides of the structure. It was launched in 2015 by the Ministry of Antiquities in order to study these structures without using any harmful drilling methods. The Pyramid of Giza is the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.
The finding might shed light on how the pyramid was built and what the gabled limestone building in front of the corridor was used for. The incomplete corridor was probably built to rebalance the weight of the pyramid around either the main entrance, which is now used by visitors and is located nearly seven metres away, or another as-yet-undiscovered chamber or space.
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More Scanning Will Take Place To Find Further
Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that they will be scanning more of this to find out what is beneath it or at least at the end of the corridor. He believes that the five rooms that are built in another part of the Pyramid of Giza above the king’s burial chamber were also built to redistribute the weight. He also said that it was possible that there was more than one burial chamber for the pharaoh.
Cosmic-ray muon radiography was used by the scientists to detect the corridor. A 6mm-thick endoscope from Japan was used to retrieve images from the tiny holes in the pyramid structure. Researchers from Scan Pyramids announced in 2017 the discovery of a void at least 30 metres long inside the Great Pyramid, the first major inner structure discovered since the nineteenth century.
If you too are curious about how the Great Pyramid would have looked if it had been completed, here is an amazing video by the Smithsonian Channel on Youtube.
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