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Hidden for 4,500 years: a sealed corridor in the Great Pyramid

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 19, 2026
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The ScanPyramids team found a sealed corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu — about 9 meters long, 2.1 meters wide, sitting 7 meters above the main entrance and hidden for roughly 4,500 years, reports Modern Engineering Marvels.

The discovery started with muography, a technique that tracks muons generated by…

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