Perhaps it may lead to a real-life Chamber of Secrets.
A 30-foot-long hidden corridor was discovered by scientists Thursday near the principal entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, Reuters reported.
The pyramid — considered the last of the seven wonders of the world still standing — has been undergoing regular searches using infrared and cosmic-ray imaging since 2015 as a component of the Scan Pyramids project.
Officials said the newly unearthed hallway may lead to more knowledge concerning the structure.
“We’re going to proceed our scanning so we’ll see what we are able to do … to determine what we are able to discover beneath it, or simply by the tip of this corridor,” said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The Great Pyramid was constructed as a monumental tomb around 2560 b.c. throughout the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops. Built to 479 feet, it now stands at 139 meters and was the tallest structure made by humans until the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889.
Five rooms atop the Pharaoh Khufu burial chamber in one other a part of the pyramid are also thought to have been built to redistribute the burden of the huge structure, according to Nature journal.
It’s also possible the pharaoh had a couple of burial chamber, Waziri added.
Waziri also revealed that the corridor could possibly be used to assist balance the burden or contain a secret chamber throughout the structure.
The Great Pyramids were in-built 2560 b.c. throughout the reign of Pharaoh Khufu (reign circa 2551 b.c. to 2528 b.c.) and stood at a whopping 479 feet — the tallest man-made structure until the Eiffel Tower in 1889.
This secret passage shouldn’t be the very first thing to be discovered throughout the structure. In 2022, scientists released a study that showed two “mysterious voids” throughout the pyramid from a 2017 scan.
“We plan to field a telescope system that has upwards of 100 times the sensitivity of the equipment that has recently been used on the Great Pyramid,” wrote the researchers.
“Because the detectors which might be proposed are very large, they can’t be placed contained in the pyramid, due to this fact our approach is to place them outside and move them along the bottom.”
“In this manner, we are able to collect muons from all angles in an effort to construct up the required data set.”
— With Post wires.
