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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>A hidden tunnel has been discovered within the Great Pyramid of Giza, a team of international archeologists announced in Egypt on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 30 foot long corridor is located on the North face of the 4,500-year-old pyramid and could lead to new discoveries within, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

“This discovery, in my opinion, is the most important discovery in the 21st century,” Zahi Hawass, former Egyptian minister of antiquities and archaeologist, said per the Today show.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists believe the vaulted corridor was designed to help distribute the weight of the giant ancient wonder of the world.<\/p>\n

Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa told reporters at the ancient site in Giza also known as the Khufu, or Cheops, pyramid, that the “gabled corridor” with a triangular ceiling “was found on the northern face of the Great Pyramid of King Khufu”.<\/p>\n

According to BBC, the discovery was part of the ScanPyramids project, launched in 2015 as a collaboration between major universities in France, Germany, Canada and Japan and a group of Egyptian experts.<\/p>\n

Archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s former antiquities minister, heads the committee supervising the project, which uses advanced technology to visualise hidden parts of the pyramid’s interior without having to excavate it.<\/p>\n

The technology is a mix of infrared thermography, muon radiography imaging and 3D reconstruction — all of which the researchers say are non-invasive and non-destructive techniques.<\/p>\n

The Great Pyramid is the largest in Giza, standing 146 metres tall, and the only surviving structure of the seven wonders of the ancient world.<\/p>\n

Built some 4,500 years ago, it has three known chambers, and like other pyramids in Egypt was intended as a pharaoh’s tomb.<\/p>\n

Hawass told reporters at the pyramid on Thursday that “there is a great possibility… the tunnel is protecting something. In my opinion, it is protecting the actual burial chamber of King Khufu.”<\/p>\n

In 2017, ScanPyramids announced the discovery of a passenger plane-sized cavity, the first major structure found inside the Great Pyramid since the 19th century.<\/p>\n

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