Scientists have discovered a 30-foot-long hidden passageway inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Giza as part of an international research project, Egyptian authorities said on Thursday.
The passage is nine meters long and more than two meters wide, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities detailed in a statement.
In Giza, Tourism Minister Ahmed Issa told reporters that the “triangular corridor”, with a triangular roof, “was discovered on the north face of the Great Pyramid of King Cheops.”
This discovery was made through the ScanPyramids project, an international scientific mission that studies the interior of the pyramids, in a collaboration between French, German, Canadian and Japanese universities and a group of Egyptian experts.
Since the end of 2015, the mission has been analyzing the interior of the pyramid using state-of-the-art non-invasive technologies that allow us to see through the monuments to discover little-known voids or internal structures and learn a little more. about construction methods, always shrouded in mystery.
Renowned Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass, who heads the scientific committee overseeing the project, told reporters on Thursday that it is “highly possible” that the tunnel “protects something.”
“In my opinion, it protects the royal burial chamber of King Cheops,” he said.
The Cheops Pyramid is the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world still standing and the largest of the three pyramids at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo.
The 4,500-year-old monument, 139 meters high and 230 meters wide, stands on the Giza plateau, next to the Sphinx and the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure.
In 2017, scientists from the ScanPyramids project revealed the presence of a huge, airplane-sized cavity at the center of this pyramid.
Source: TSF
