Possible Ancient Egyptian structure identified beside the Giza pyramids
The discovery of the L-shaped object was made in an ancient Egyptian elite cemetery beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
Researchers working at Giza, Egypt, have identified an anomaly beneath the sand, which may be a previously unknown L-shaped structure.
The discovery was made using ground-penetrating technology in an ancient Egyptian elite cemetery beside the Great Pyramid
The Art Newspaper
May 9, 2024
© Photographs by Higashi Nippon International University
of Khufu. “It could be a part of artificial objects, because the L-shape cannot be created in natural geological structures,” says Motoyuki Sato of Tohoku University in Japan, a member of the joint Japanese-Egyptian research team that made the discovery. “We hoped to find something, but we did not expect to find it there.”
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