The mystery around Egyptian Giza pyramids continues to fascinate us. Built nearly 4500 years ago, we still don’t know how they were constructed, what technique could have been possibly used at that time to carry such huge rocks and to build symmetrical pyramids.
On Monday, Egyptian archaeologists announced that they have discovered an “exciting and impressive” anomaly in the Great Pyramid of Giza, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el Damaty told reporters at a press conference that an infrared thermography scan showed that the first row of limestone blocks on the pyramid — built in 2,560 B.C. as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu, were all the same temperature, with the exception of three specific blocks, which were hotter. He said the rocks were also “different in formation”, and that similar findings were noted in the middle of the eastern side of the pyramid, as reported by Ahram Online.
“I don’t know yet what could lay behind such blocks or what these anomalies could be, but it will surely lead to major discoveries,” el-Damaty told Ahram Online.
He added that he has several hypotheses in mind, but cannot reveal them before conducting further research.
“This anomaly is really quite impressive and it’s just in front of us, at the ground level,” Mehdi Tayoubi, founder of the Paris-based Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute, told Discovery News.
