A team of international archaeologists from multiple countries have discovered a hidden corridor in the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt. ...
, 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.
Other chambers that have been discovered in the pyramid so far, which you can see in the illustration below, include a subterranean chamber , a queen’s chamber , a grand gallery and a king’s chamber . The newly uncovered hidden corridor in the illustration is labeled h. The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest human-made structure on earth until the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889. It remains the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.
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