A corridor was discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (Photo: Reuters)
Will this sensational discovery lead the researchers to further discoveries in the form of additional secret spaces?
All that remains is to wait and see.
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Tourism about the opening to the public of a magnificent 4,000-year-old tomb, and now news is spreading around the world about the discovery of a hidden corridor, which is about nine meters long, located near the main entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which was built about 4,500 years ago.
In the pyramid, which is considered the last of the Seven Wonders of the World still standing, since 2015 continuous scans have been conducted, using advanced imaging tools that use infrared technology and other technologies.
These scans are performed as part of the international Scan Pyramids project, which is designed to explore the interior of the pyramids in non-invasive ways.
It is considered the last of the Seven Wonders of the World that is still standing.
The Great Pyramid of Giza (Photo: Reuters)
What will they find out in the end?
The corridor discovered in the Great Pyramid (Photo: Reuters)
What will be discovered down the hall?
Officials in Egypt indicated that the "new" corridor that was revealed may lead to more information about the structure.
"We will continue the scanning process so that we can understand what can be discovered under the corridor, or we will find that it is only possible to reach its end," said Mustafa Waziri, director general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. The Great Pyramid was built as a monumental tomb in approximately 2560 BC, during his
reign of Pharaoh Khufu (around 2551 BC to 2528 BC). Originally, its height was about 145 meters, but today its height is about 139 meters, and this is due to wear and tear processes that took place over the generations. In fact, until the construction of the Eiffel Tower In Paris in 1889, it was considered the tallest man-made structure in the world.
The builders of the pyramid planned five chambers above the burial chamber of Pharaoh Khufu, and the researchers believe that their construction was designed to create a more balanced distribution of weight in the interior of the enormous structure.
Waziri adds and notes that Pharaoh Khufu may have had more than one burial chamber.
According to him, it is possible that this corridor is also intended to balance the weight, or on the other hand - to lead to the secret chamber hidden in the depth of the building.
The "new" corridor may lead to more information about the building.
The press conference that revealed the find (Photo: Reuters)
Never ceases to amaze
The New York Post reports that this hidden corridor joins other past discoveries discovered in the pyramid.
For example, in 2022 scientists published a study that presented what they called "two mysterious spaces" inside the pyramid.
These cavities appeared in scans conducted several years before.
"We plan to deploy a sensing system with a sensitivity 100 times greater than that of the scanning equipment recently used in the Great Pyramid," the researchers wrote.
"Since these detectors are very large, it is impossible to place them inside the pyramid, so we took a different approach: we will place them outside it, and move them along its base.
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