A hidden corridor about ten meters long was uncovered by scientists on Thursday, near the main entrance to the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, Reuters reported.
The pyramid – recently considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World still standing – is an archaeological site where searches are regularly conducted using infrared imaging and cosmic rays since 2015 as part of the Scan Pyramids project. Officials claimed that the revealed corridor may lead to new information about the building. “We intend to continue scanning in order to understand what is hidden behind this corridor,” said Mustafa Waziri, head of Egypt’s Council of Antiquities.
There is a possibility that the corridor leads to additional secret rooms (Photo: Reuters)
The Great Pyramid was built as a monumental tomb around 2560 BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu (around 2551 BC to 2528 BC). Waziri explained that “it is possible that the pharaoh had more than one burial chamber and it is likely that the corridor leads to one of the secret rooms inside the ancient building “.
This is not the first mysterious find found in the pyramid (Photo: Reuters)
This secret passage is not the first to be discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. In 2022, archaeologists published a study that revealed two “mysterious spaces” that were located inside the structure in 2017.