Archeologists found a hidden corridor in the Great Pyramid at Giza by using cosmic rays to map the ancient wonder - March 2, 2023 at 10:23AM

A hidden corridor (right) inside the Great Pyramid of Giza (left) was discovered and mapped by researches from the Scan Pyramids project.

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A hidden corridor has been discovered within the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic rays.
The corridor is 30 feet long and located near the entrance of the 4,500-year-old structure.
It could lead to new discoveries within the seventh wonder of the ancient world, researchers say.

A hidden tunnel has been discovered hidden within the Great Pyramid of Giza, a team of international archeologists announced in Egypt on Thursday.

The 30-foot-long corridor is located near the entrance of the 4,500-year-old pyramid and could lead to new discoveries within, Reuters reported.

“This discovery, in my opinion, is the most important discovery in the 21st century,” Zahi Hawass, Former Egyptian minister of antiquities and archaeologist, said per the Today show.

Archaeologists believe the vaulted corridor was designed to help distribute the weight of the giant ancient wonder of the world.

“This corridor it’s protecting or reducing the pressure on something beneath it. Might be a chamber, might be something else,” said Mostafa Waziri, Egypt’s supreme council of antiquities.

Waziri said he hopes the purpose of the corridor will become clear “very soon.”

The discovery was made as part of Scan Pyramids, a project started in 2015 that employs cosmic-ray imaging to investigate what lies within the pyramid without causing any destruction, according to an article published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications.

The project has also uncovered several “previously unknown voids” within the massive monuments, the Nature Communications article said.

Great Pyramid at Giza was initially constructed in 2560 BC under the reign of pharoah Khufu.

The 450-foot-tall burial monument was the tallest human-made structure on the planet until the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889.

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