The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has captured and fascinated the imagination of countless generations and for many it was the beginning of devoting themselves to studying the history of these mysterious monuments and the ancient, nearly forgotten dynasties that had made a great civilization once upon a time. But despite the studies and analysis it came as a real shock when recently researchers discovered something new inside the Great Pyramid: a void, an empty space that nobody even imagined there, some sort of a chamber above the Grand Gallery, the famous corridor which leads to the burial chamber of the Khufu pharaoh. For it was for him that this huge funeral monument was built in the first place.
Completed about four and a half millenia, during the Fourth Dinasty of the Old Kingdom, the Great Pyramid of Giza - as we name it today - was originally almost 480 feet tall, theoretically an impossible feat at the time to bring so many stones here, cut it to size and put it all together, according the maniacally precise plans and numbers. Yet the ancient Egyptians somehow managed to do it and still there are countless theories about how they managed that, and none of these has been accepted as the final one. Everybody knew that the pyramids are still hiding secrets, but only using modern muon imaging techniques this new void has been discovered. And since no one could think of simply breaking some stone blocks to further explore the mysterious new space, researchers are thinking of building one or more miniaturial robots and sending them to see, film and broadcast what is inside that strange void.
It might be simply an empty space designed to lower the total weight of the structure, which is from the very start formidable, to say the least. Somehow the ancient Egyptians thought about everything and had the idea of reducing dramatically the whole pressure, still keeping the general form. Or maybe it is a hall, or a corridor which leads somewhere, maybe the place where the once fabled treasures are kept and have been waiting for thousands of years. And there is a small, a very small chance that the whole image of a void is just a strange anomaly. Until the scientists have more data the Great Pyramid of Giza seems to hold onto it's secrets.
