Jakarta –
Room mysterious hidden corridor that is inside Pyramid Giza in Egypt, Egypt seen for the first time. Actually, scientists discovered the passage in 2016 but they didn’t want to destroy the 4,500 year old relic to gain access to it.
So, a project was held to peek at the secrets that the cavity might have. Using endoscopic cameras and a technique called cosmic-ray muon radiography, experts were able to map the corridor for the first time and determine it was 9 meters long and 2.1 meters wide.
So what’s the use? Possible, as quoted detikINET from the Daily Mail, the structure was designed to help distribute the pyramid’s weight around an entrance or other undiscovered space.
This 146 m high Egyptian pyramid, built as a royal burial place around 2560 BC, is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing today.
The construction of the corridor is unfinished and can also add to the knowledge of how this pyramid was built. Research will continue to find out more about the hidden structures in the Pyramids.
“We will continue the scan so we will see what we can do to find what we can find under it, or at the end of this corridor,” said Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The five chambers above the king’s burial chambers in other parts of the pyramid are also thought to have been built to redistribute the weight of the massive structure.
The corridor discovery was part of the Scan project Pyramid, which for the past seven years has used specialized technology including infrared thermography, 3D simulation and endoscopy to peer inside structures. Despite being one of the oldest and largest monuments on Earth, there is no single consensus how Pyramid was built.
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