The Great Pyramid contains the most elaborate system of passages and chambers within any pyramid. It’s estimated that just a fraction - a 7,400th - of the pyramid’s volume consists of known passages and vaults, meaning there’s a lot of it that is still shrouded in mystery. Some accounts suggest the Khufu was never interred in the tomb, with the pyramid instead designed as a storehouse for wisdom, Smithsonian reported. It’s possible the tombs were looted, they were decoys with the bodies buried elsewhere in the huge structure, or the bodies were never placed in the pyramid at all. He reportedly found a red sarcophagus in the granite-lined King's Chamber, but nothing inside it. In 820, a caliph named Abdullah Al Mamun broke into the pyramid to discover the King and Queen’s Chamber at the heart of the structure. Two chambers have been found in the Pyramid of Khufu, which is the largest built in ancient Egypt and measures 756 feet on each side, Unexplainedstuff reported. Not a single body has been found in any of the three pyramids at Giza, leading to hopes that the bodies of the pharaohs and their queens may remain undisturbed in the vast necropolises.īut there’s a change their remains and any treasures they were buried with may have been robbed in antiquity. The two pyramids at Dahshur were built by Snefru.
Khufu was built by the son of Snefru, founder of the fourth dynasty, who lived between 2,575 and 2,465 BC), while Khafre was built by the son of Khufu. 'Khufu will offer us today one of its secrets,' el-Damaty said.Įxperts are scanning the Khafre pyramid of Giza as well as two pyramids in Dahshur, all of which are south of Cairo. Other heat anomalies were detected in the upper half of the pyramid that the experts said need to be investigated further. While inspecting the area, el-Damaty said they found 'that there is something like a small passage in the ground that you can see, leading up to the pyramids ground, reaching an area with a different temperature.
'The first row of the pyramid's stones are all uniform, then we come here and find that there's a difference in the formation,' he said. In particular, it said, an 'impressive' anomaly was found 'on the eastern side of the Khufu pyramid at ground level,' raising the tantalising possibility there may be an unknown chamber.Īntiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty and technical experts working on the project showed the higher temperature being detected in three specific adjacent stones at the bottom of the pyramid in a live thermal camera presentation to journalists. 'To explain such anomalies, a lot of hypotheses and possibilities could be drawn up: presence of voids behind the surface, internal air currents.' 'The teams have concluded the existence of several thermal anomalies that were observed on all monuments during the heating up or the cooling down phases,' the statement said. He said at a book signing: 'Some people believe in the Bible like I do and don't find that to be silly at all, and believe that God created the Earth and don't find that to be silly at all.'īut Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Antiquities Ministry said Carson's comments are similar to other inaccurate theories about the pyramids, including that those that say they were built by Atlanteans from a mythical lost continent. Last week, Carson stood by his belief that Egypt's great pyramids were built by the Biblical figure Joseph to store grain, an assertion dismissed by experts who said its accepted science that they were tombs. They have drawn interest in the US, though, where the retired neurosurgeon has jumped to the top of the Republican presidential field. 'Does he even deserve a response? He doesn't,' Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty said.Ĭarson's comments have received little attention in Egypt, where people are accustomed to accept expert views about the 4,500-year-old structures. Egyptian antiquities officials on Monday scoffed at claims by Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson that Egypt's ancient pyramids were not built as pharaonic tombs but used to store grain.
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