Secrets of the pyramid might finally be revealed.
By Raif Karerat
Researchers in Egypt have reported that they have found “thermal anomalies” inside of the Great Pyramid of Giza two weeks into a project aimed at discovering the famed pharaonic monument’s secrets, including possible hidden burial chambers.
The team also found thermal anomalies on three other pyramids in Giza and Dahshur, 12 miles south, but the ministry said in a statement that the temperature differences detected at the Great Pyramid, were “particularly impressive.”
“There is something here,” Hany Helal, a professor at Cairo University involved in the project, told CNN. “Something is not normal with respect to the other parts of the Pyramid.”
The results have come just two weeks into Operation Scan Pyramids, which will last until the end of 2016. The scientific mission uses “noninvasive visualization techniques,” including 3-D scans with lasers and drones, to see inside the pyramids, according to the project’s website.
The investigation, coordinated by the Faculty of Engineering of Cairo University and the HIP Institute, works under the motto, “Just because a mystery is 4,500 years old doesn’t mean it can’t be solved.” Per to The Guardian, the team’s next project will be to build a 3-D model of the Giza Plateau in an effort to better understand the construction of the Pyramids.
The Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops, is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one that has survived to the present day.