CAIRO. Scientists have discovered a corridor nine meters long and 2.1 meters wide inside pyramid of giza in egypt. The opening was made yesterday by the Minister of Tourism. The discovery was made possible by the ScanPyramids project, a joint mission of experts from Cairo University and the French Institute of Innovation for Heritage Preservation (HIP). The scientific team began scanning the monument in 2015 and announced the following year that they had discovered a chamber inside the pyramid.

In 2017, thanks to the same program, which uses modern technology, electronic scanners and endoscopes, another site (ScanPyramids Big Void) was discovered to explore the inside of the pyramid, the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world to survive. It was 30 meters long and was the first interior room found here in the 19th century.

To locate the corridor, robots were placed inside the pyramid, which began to move inside with the help of remote control, which was controlled by experts from the outside, as well-known Egyptologist Zahi Hawass explained yesterday. The unfinished corridor was likely built to lighten the weight of the pyramid, either on two wings of its main entrance, which sits seven meters below, or on a secret room that has yet to be discovered, Mustafa Waziri, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council, said. Antiquities. The Great Pyramid was built as a funerary monument around 2560 BC. during the reign of Cheops. With a height of 146 meters, it was the tallest monument of mankind until the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889.

Who was present?

Among those who attended yesterday’s opening ceremony were, in addition to Waziri and Hawass, one of the founders of the program, Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Aisha and a team of scientists from the mission.

It is believed that the five chambers above the king’s burial chamber in another part of the pyramid were also built to redistribute the weight of this massive structure. It is also possible that the pharaoh had more than one burial chamber. Scientists confirmed the presence of the passage using radar and ultrasound before taking images of the passage using a six-millimeter endoscope from Japan, which penetrated through the seams in the pyramid’s stones.