New technology let them spot the 30-foot-long tunnel.
A team of international archeologists from multiple countries have discovered a hidden corridor in the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt.
The discovery was made as part of Scan Pyramids, a project that uses a technique called cosmic-ray muon radiography to investigate the inside of pyramids without causing destruction. It works by firing radiation through the pyramid, then reading the radiation when it travels to detectors placed around the pyramid.
According to Reuters, in order to get the precise analysis, scientists retrieved images by feeding an endoscope through a small joint in the pyramid’s stones.“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,” Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters after a press conference.
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