A brand new chamber courting again some 4,500 years has been uncovered in one of many Great Pyramids in Egypt.
The hall measuring 9 metres (30ft) lengthy and greater than six ft broad was found near the principle entrance of one of many three pyramids at Giza.
The ScanPyramids challenge used high-tech tools to unearth the chamber which is situated on the northern aspect of the Pyramid of Khufu.
Archaeologists are puzzled over the operate of the chamber, which couldn’t be entered from outdoors the pyramid.
The challenge has been ongoing since 2015 and on Thursday there was an unveiling ceremony attended by scientists.
Professor of non-destructive testing, Christian Grosse, mentioned that varied scanning methods had been deployed to find the chamber, together with ultrasound measurements and floor penetrating radars.
Scientists detected the hall utilizing superior radiography, then collected photographs of it by feeding a minuscule endoscope via a tiny joint within the pyramid’s stones.
Mr Grosse mentioned: ”There are two giant limestones on the finish chamber, and now the query is what’s behind these stones and under the chamber.”
Egyptian antiquities officers mentioned the invention might result in additional findings.
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Antiquities Supreme Council Mostafa Waziri speculated that the unfinished hall was used to redistribute the pyramid’s weight round the principle entrance utilized by vacationers, or round one other undiscovered chamber or house.
Mr Waziri added: “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.”
Another longer sealed-off hall was present in 2017, once more within the Pyramid of Khufu, measuring 98ft.
The Pyramid of Khufu was named after its creator – a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 BC – and is one in all three pyramids that make up the Great Pyramids, one of many Seven Wonders of the Ancient World nonetheless standing.
Source: information.sky.com”