According to archaeologist Zahi Hawass, who heads the scientific committee that oversaw the project, it is “very possible” that the tunnel “protects something.”
A group of scientists has discovered a passage nine meters long and two meters wide hidden in the Great Pyramid of Cheopsannounced the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities this Thursday.
The tunnel has a triangular roof and was “discovered on the north face of the Great Pyramid of King Cheops,” said the tourism minister, Ahmed Issain Guizathe plateau where the mausoleum built more than 4,500 years ago is located.
The discovery was made thanks to the project ScanPyramids, an international scientific mission that studies the interior of the pyramids without the need for excavations. French, German, Canadian and Japanese universities are collaborating on the project, as well as a group of Egyptian experts.
The mission has been analyzing the interior of the pyramid since 2015 thanks to state-of-the-art technologies that allow seeing through the structures. These tools manage to detect possible voids or unknown internal structures.
According to the archaeologist Zahi Hawasswho heads the scientific committee that oversaw the project, it is “very possible” that the tunnel “protects something.”
“In my opinion, it protects the real burial chamber of King Cheops,” said the former antiquities minister of the country.
The Cheops Pyramid, the largest of the three pyramids at Giza, is the last of the sseven wonders of the ancient world which is still standing
The 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, ScanPyramida scientists had revealed the presence of a huge hole in the pyramid, the size of a passenger plane.
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