For years, scientists have known there was something hidden above the entrance to the Great Pyramid. Now, they've finally revealed it.
Cosmic rays and photos from an endoscope have revealed a"hidden" corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza's north face, above the pyramid's ancient entrance, new research finds.
To learn more about the void, the scientists inserted an endoscope into the corridor to peer inside on Feb. 24 , they announced in a statement. But so far, the team has not found any artifacts inside the corridor, they told Live Science. "To our knowledge, this study is the first characterization of the position and dimensions of a void detected by cosmic-ray muons with a sensitivity of a few centimeters only," the researchers wrote in the study.
In 2017, scientists announced the discovery of a larger void, about 98 feet long, located above the pyramid's"grand gallery," but a more precise analysis of this void has not yet been completed.
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