Inside Great Pyramid of Giza

The Egyptian Pyramids continue to fascinate researchers together with public alike with their mysteries, but we're getting closer and closer to unlocking all of their secrets.

An especially interesting feature ended up being talked about in present Unearthed show on The Science Channel. During system, Egyptologist Mark Lehner described a series of grooves discovered only outdoors King Khufu's burial chamber into the Great Pyramid. He feels the designers constructed a straightforward immune system: a series of thick granite blocks preventing the path to the chamber.

"These grooves and protrusions aren't attractive. They truly are section of a very ancient machine."

The grooves were utilized to direct slabs of granite towards entrance along with keeping them vertical. Another collection of thicker blocks had been to slide down the passageway, completely blocking the entrance from tomb raiders.

At the very least, that has been the plan. The burial chamber ended up being "probably currently robbed of the articles at some point involving the end of Khufu's reign and failure of the Old Kingdom [around 2134 BC], " writes Lehner inside the book The Complete Pyramids (Thames and Hudson, 1997). What exactly is left of Khufu's burial is "only" a large red granite sarcophagus. Many archaeologists believe the burial chamber itself is a decoy in addition to genuine one continues to be hidden.

Based on the Egyptian antiquity minister the pyramid might be hiding undiscovered cavities. In a back 2011, he revealed that researchers had “concluded the presence of a number of thermal anomalies that were seen on all monuments throughout the heating-up or even the cooling-down levels [at sunset at dawn]. To spell out these types of anomalies, a lot of hypotheses and opportunities could be used; existence of voids behind the area, internal air currents."

The cavities may be natural (love cracks) or other undiscovered chambers. Exploration performed by robots, which went through the pyramid's six shafts (four originating in the king's chamber and two from the queen's chamber) discovered three copper doors. To totally realize if you can find actual undiscovered chambers, researchers are employing cosmic rays to map the inside of this pyramid.