This gable-shaped roof is also used in the now-discovered room. (Photo: Shutterstock/Harmony Video Production)
Researchers have discovered a chamber hidden for at least 4,500 years in the pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. But the investigations are just beginning. Techniques such as muon tomography helped locate the chamber.
The newly discovered room appears to be a corridor that ends in a dead end. Finding it was not so easy, because in the best case scenario, of course, this happens without damaging the pyramid or having to move the stones.
Various methods were used to explore the pyramid and discover the chamber. One of them is something called muon tomography, Christian Gross, a professor of non-destructive testing at the Technical University of Munich, told Xinhua. Daily news mentioned. Große is currently in Egypt and was present when the room was discovered.
In muon tomography, contrast tomography is used, which can capture particles from space using sensors. Depending on how many particles they detect and how they behave, researchers can determine what structure is there.
However, with this technique, researchers don’t get a picture of the inside or what they’re studying there. In order to confirm the results or to find other structures, other techniques were used.
In addition to tomography, the researchers used ultrasound, radar and endoscopy to uncover the mysteries behind the pyramid’s thick limestone blocks. The muon tomography pointed the researchers in the right direction.
Then the penetration took place using the endoscope. The researchers were able to push this through a gap in the stones to look around inside the previously hidden chamber.
This is what the room looks like. (Photo: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)
According to Große, the room is surprisingly large. It is 2.30 meters high and 2.10 meters wide. It also has a gabled roof. What exactly is in the room or what is there for is not yet known.
This gabled roof indicates a private room. However, they are also known as a constructive means of absorbing loads and protecting other rooms. So it is not possible to say for sure yet.
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in one Research paper The room was described by scientists based in Egypt, and published in Nature Communications. Accordingly, it is a nine-meter-long corridor that seems to end in a dead end of two limestone blocks.
The researchers will try to figure out what the room is about.
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