Hidden corridor discovered in Great Pyramid of Giza

Cairo: Next to the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza, a hidden corridor nine meters long has been discovered. Researchers expect more findings to which the corridor is going to lead, Reuters reported.

The new discovery was made under the Scan Pyramids project of 2015, which has been using non-invasive technology such as infrared thermography, 3D simulations and cosmic-ray imaging to examine the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The discovery, published in the journal; Nature, suggested that it would assist in finding more details about the construction of the pyramid and the purpose of a gabled limestone sitting in the font for the corridor.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb during the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops, around 2560 BC. It has the height of 146 metres and was the tallest structure made by humans until the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

On the newly found corridor, experts believe that it was likely built to redistribute the pyramid's weight around the main entrance or around another undiscovered chamber or space.

Mostafa Waziri, head of EEgypt'sSupreme Council of Antiquities, said that his team is going to keep scanning to see what they can do to figure out what they can find beneath the corridor.

According to him, five rooms found in another part of the pyramid were also for the redistribution of weight. But it is also possible that the pharaoh also made more than one burial chamber.