Pyramid scheme
TUT, TUT, it appears the builders of the Great Pyramid flubbed — and then sealed their mistake in stone.
A team of researchers has discovered a huge chamber hidden behind the walls of the Egyptian pyramid built to hold the remains of Pharoah Khufu, according to a report Thursday in the journal Nature.
The massive void in the pyramid erected more than 4,500 years ago is located above the Grand Gallery — a passage with 28-foot ceilings that leads to Khufu’s tomb — and measures at least 100 feet in length.
Khufu’s final resting place, often called the Great Pyramid, is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It’s also an awe-inspiring mystery because its status as a national heirloom makes it difficult to probe.
Experts at Scan Pyramids, however, realized muography, a technology that measures density to examine volcano innards, could also gaze within the Giza Plateau pyramids. Although no one yet knows what exactly the passage is, Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass, members of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities’ scientific committee, both saw the findings and told The Atlantic they suspect it’s a “construction gap.”