Great Pyramid of Giza finally gives up its secrets with discovery of huge SECRET CHAMBER

The newly discovered ‘long narrow void’, at least 100
feet long, and located above a hallway measuring
about 155 feet long called the Grand Gallery, one of a
series of passageways and chambers inside the
immense pyramid in Cairo.
The researchers said it constitutes the first major
inner structure found in the Great Pyramid since the
19th century.
But so far the team is baffled as to what the room is
for or whether it contains Egyptian treasures or
artefacts.
Despite studying one of the most impressive
monuments in the world for centuries, archaeologists
are still unsure how the Great Pyramid, which stands
at 146 metres tall, was built.
But they have now moved one step closer to
understanding the structure after discovering a “plane-
sized” void in the middle of the pyramid.
Researchers announced the discovery on Thursday but
said they did not know the purpose, contents or
precise dimensions of what they are calling a "void" or
"cavity" inside the pyramid, built as a monumental
tomb around 2560 BC.
The discovery was made as part of the
“ScanPyramids” project, which is using cosmic-ray
imaging to map the interior of the great structures of
Egypt.
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Inside the Great Pyramid
To peer inside the pyramid, the scientists used an
imaging technique called muon tomography that tracks
particles that bombard Earth at close to the speed of
light and penetrate deeply into solid objects.
Experts used muon technology which looks at muon
particles that fall from the Earth’s atmosphere and
usually pass through vacant spaces, but are also
absorbed or deflected by harder surfaces – hence why
the experts are capable of looking inside the pyramid
without entering.
The Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC.
Mehdi Tayoubi, a co-founder of the ScanPyramids
project and president of the Heritage Innovation
Preservation Institute, said: "This structure is not
accessible, we don't see (that) people tried, if you look
at the Grand Gallery, to access the void which is
above.
"So this void was hidden, I think, since the
construction of the Pyramid, it was not accessible.
"We needed this technique - the right technique at the
right time - to be able to identify it and discover it.”
The discovery opens up the possibility that the void
could be linked to other structures within the Great
Pyramid, which was built for Pharaoh Khufu and
completed in around 2550 BC.
Mehdi Tayoubi said: "What we are sure about is that
this big void is there, that it is impressive, that it was
not expected by, as far as I know, any kind of theory,"
”This is a premier.
"It could be composed of one or several structures...
maybe it could be another Grand Gallery. It could be a
chamber, it could be a lot of things."
"It was hidden, I think, since the construction of the
pyramid.”
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Researchers discovered a 'big void' in the Pyramid
by observation of cosmic-ray muons, that are only
partially absorbed by stone, an empty space of at
least 30 meters long that could be a possible
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Hany Helal of Cairo University said: "We open the
question to Egyptologists and archaeologists: what
could it be?"
The Great Pyramid, looming alongside other large
pyramids, was constructed during the reign of the
Pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops.
It soars to a height of 479 feet, the tallest structure
built by humankind until the Eiffel Tower in Paris in
1889, and boasts a base measuring 754 feet.
Muon particles originate from interactions between
cosmic rays from space and atoms of Earth's upper
atmosphere.
The particles can penetrate hundreds of yards into
stone before being absorbed. Placing detectors inside
a pyramid can discern cavities within a solid
structure.

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