In a new study, a team of researchers reports finding an “anomaly”: an L-shaped underground structure, possibly of human origin, never before discovered.
Pyramids and others ancient Egyptian buildings surround yourself with many mysteries and they ask many questions. Proof with recent discovery researchers close by pyramids from the Giza necropolis.
Scientists from several institutions worked together between 2021 and 2023 on western cemeterynamed so because the tombs are located on the west side Pyramid of Cheops. In order to see what lies beneath the sand, the team used two technologies cutting edge: ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), we read in their study published on May 5.
Their observations focused on mastabas, rectangular tombs made of limestone or raw earth, with flat roofs, but also on part from the cemetery still unexplored. They made a discovery in that area.
“We think we have found it abnormality“, presented by scientists. In their article, they explain observation using their digital tools “combinationshallow structure connected to deeper structure” probably built by men. First, In the shape of the letter L in the horizontal plane, it is located 2 meters underground, while the other, located almost 5 meters underground in its shallowest part and 10 meters in the deepest part.
But what was it for? Archaeologists ignore it
At first glance, nothing particularly exciting. More, the discovery is intriguing. Researchers do not understand why and how this structure.
“It seems it is filled with sandwhich means that it was buried after construction”advise. “Maybe it was a gateway to a deeper structure.”
They add: “We think that the continuity of the shallow structure and the large deep structure is important. Based on the results of the survey, we cannot determine what the material will be the origin of the anomalybut it could be a large underground archaeological structure.”
This discovery could therefore lead to another. New excavations are in class.
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