New secret corridor discovered in the Great pyramid

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one is left standing: the Great Pyramid, located on the Giza plateau in Egypt. Built by the pharaoh Khufu about 4,500 years ago, it was the tallest human-made building on the planet until it was eclipsed in 1889 by the Eiffel Tower.

It remains an enduring testament to the ingenuity and determination of humanity. It’s also an edifice shrouded in mysteries.

A paper recently published in Nature Communications has lifted the veil on at least one of these mysteries.

Using implacable radiation from outer space and technology first developed for use in particle accelerators, scientists collaborating with the project Scan Pyramids have discovered a new passageway inside the Great Pyramid.

Researchers have been using this technique to effectively X-ray the Great Pyramid. In a recent paper, scientists found a previously unknown tunnel in the structure about 2 meters square and 9 meters long.

This is not the first void found in the Great Pyramid. In 2017, some of the same researchers found an even larger void, about 30 meters long. So far, nobody knows what is in these voids.

Ref: Nature Communications; BigThink