Researchers have used muon detectors to discover a hidden, 30-metre-long space — which could help to reveal how the 4,500-year-old monument was built.
02 November 2017
Physicists have used the by-products of cosmic rays to reveal a large, previously unidentified chamber inside the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. The find is the first discovery since the nineteenth century of a major new space inside the pyramid.
![[Image: Pyramid-online-news-graphic-09.11.17.jpg]](https://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.47516.1509631467!/image/Pyramid-online-news-graphic-09.11.17.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/Pyramid-online-news-graphic-09.11.17.jpg)
https://www.nature.com/news/cosmic-ray-p...id-1.22939
Exciting!
02 November 2017
Physicists have used the by-products of cosmic rays to reveal a large, previously unidentified chamber inside the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. The find is the first discovery since the nineteenth century of a major new space inside the pyramid.
![[Image: Pyramid-online-news-graphic-09.11.17.jpg]](https://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.47516.1509631467!/image/Pyramid-online-news-graphic-09.11.17.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/Pyramid-online-news-graphic-09.11.17.jpg)
https://www.nature.com/news/cosmic-ray-p...id-1.22939
Exciting!
