Hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza confirmed

[Micael]

Very cool to still be finding hidden things in the pyramid.

Scientists reveal hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza
By Aidan Lewis

CAIRO, March 2 (Reuters) - A hidden corridor nine metres (30 feet) long has been discovered close to the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza, and this could lead to further findings, Egyptian antiquities officials said on Thursday.

The discovery within the pyramid, the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, was made under the Scan Pyramids project that since 2015 has been using non-invasive technology including infrared thermography, 3D simulations and cosmic-ray imaging to peer inside the structure.

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An article published in the journal Nature on Thursday said the discovery could contribute to knowledge about the construction of the pyramid and the purpose of a gabled limestone structure that sits in front of the corridor.

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The Great Pyramid was constructed as a monumental tomb around 2560 BC during the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops. Built to a height of 146 metres (479 feet), it now stands at 139 metres and was the tallest structure made by humans until the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889.

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The unfinished corridor was likely created to redistribute the pyramid's weight around either the main entrance now used by tourists, almost seven metres away, or around another as yet undiscovered chamber or space, said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

"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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Five rooms atop the king's burial chamber in another part of the pyramid are also thought to have been built to redistribute the weight of the massive structure. It was possible the pharaoh had more than one burial chamber, Waziri added.

Scientists detected the corridor through cosmic-ray muon radiography, before retrieving images of it by feeding a 6mm-thick endoscope from Japan through a tiny joint in the pyramid's stones.

In 2017, Scan Pyramids researchers announced the discovery of a void at least 30 metres long inside the Great Pyramid, the first major inner structure found since the 19th century.

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Reporting by Aidan Lewis; editing by Mark Heinrich

[jemhouston]

4,500 years old and still taking us to school.

[MikeKozlowski]

....You want a horror movie? Because this is how you get a horror movie.

Mike

[Micael]

....You want a horror movie? Because this is how you get a horror movie.

Mike

Well they recently announced that they found a 52 foot long papyrus scroll containing the Book of the Dead soooo

[brovane]

Michael Bay is standing by.

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[jemhouston]

Michael Bay is standing by.

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Please keep Universal and him away from this.

[rtoldman]

upon opening the corridor, archeologists discover definitive proof that the answer is in fact 43

[kdahm]

upon opening the corridor, archeologists discover definitive proof that the answer is in fact 43

And an old fedora on a crumbling heap of bones.

[Zen9]

upon opening the corridor, archeologists discover definitive proof that the answer is in fact 43

And an old fedora on a crumbling heap of bones.

Na that's in the other chamber they haven't found yet....blocked by the giant stone ball

[rtoldman]

maybe a tardis then?

[jemhouston]

maybe a tardis then?

Close

[rtoldman]

+1

[CJ07]

maybe a tardis then?

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Nah they had that for years. Why relocate NORAD from Cheyenne Mountain... one too many foothold incidents.

[jemhouston]

maybe a tardis then?

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Nah they had that for years. Why relocate NORAD from Cheyenne Mountain... one too many foothold incidents.

SGC needed to expand, they could only go up into NORAD.

[Kunkmiester]

Always bugged me that they kept things so tight for so long. I got season 1 off Netflix a long time ago, and saw a lot of issues that could have been dealt with much better of they'd had more resources available. Like, maybe more that a couple of platoons of explorers, or more than three doctors/scientists who knew anything about actual aliens and stuff. You know?

Same with a lot of such stuff really. You keep it so super top secret nobody knows anything and then things go wack because nobody knows anything.