They Found the Answer to the Great Pyramid’s Hidden Door

They Found the Answer to the Great Pyramid’s Hidden Door A robot crawled about 200 feet up a tunnel inside the Great Pyramid that is roughly eight inches wide, and at the top its lamp landed on a polished slab of white Tura limestone with two copper pins set into it. A finished door at the end of a shaft no human body could ever climb. In this one I go through what is actually behind it: a second rough stone sitting less than eight inches away, a matching door found on the opposite side at almost exactly the same distance, and then in 2011 a bendy camera that curled round and saw the back of that door for the first time in 4,500 years. The part that gets me is that the back is polished too, and the copper pins pass straight through the slab and end in tiny finished loops a few millimetres wide, too small to do any mechanical job at all. Somebody did careful finishing work on a surface facing sealed darkness. I will be honest about where I land on this, the air shaft idea was always nonsense since these are blocked at both ends, and the Badawy and Trimble star alignments make far more sense of it, the southern shaft pointing at Sirius and the northern one at the stars that never set, which Egyptian texts call the imperishable ones. If the shaft is a road then the door is a gate on it, and the back was always meant to be seen, just not by us. There is also the cedar strip Dixon pulled out of the northern shaft in 1872, lost for over 70 years in a Scottish storeroom until someone spotted an old Egyptian flag on a cigar tin in a box of Asian objects, and when it was finally dated it came back around 500 years older than the pyramid itself. And the thing I cannot let go of is that last November Zahi Hawass stood in front of an audience and promised a sealed door at the end of a new 30 metre corridor would be opened this year, the year is nearly done, and nothing has been published. Before anyone gets excited, remember Hetepheres, Khufu's own mother, whose sealed alabaster sarcophagus was lifted in front of invited guests and turned out to be completely empty. All from Wikimedia Commons — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: plus the filename. *CC-BY-SA:* All Gizah Pyramids · Great Pyramid of Giza, Pyramid of Khufu · Pyramid of Cheops, side · Great Pyramid of Giza Grand Gallery · By ovedc, Interior of the Great Pyramid, 01 and 02 · Section of the Pyramid of Cheops at Gizeh (1902), TIMEA · Chambre-reine-kheops-es · Chambre-reine-kheops-no text-numbered · Bent Pyramid 4 · 26724 crumbling revetment, core masonry and desert surrounds of Sneferu's bent pyramid · Saqqara, Pyramid of Djoser, Mortuary temple, closeup of stonework · Building pyramid · A shaped mason's mark 5 · Limestone false door from the tomb of Weri, Giza, Ashmolean Museum · Heavy stone door, sealing entrance to burial cave · Colorful Hieroglyphs and Starred Ceiling (36473972566) · Egyptian Museum Halls (Cairo) 02 · ICE XII Kairo 2019-11-03b · ميناء وادي الجرف · Cedrus wood · Calocedrus decurrens CL MHNT · Celestial North Pole as viewed from Pennsylvania State Game Lands 13 · Cloud chambers played an important role of particle detectors · Endoscope at Palais de la Decouverte IMG 6916 black · Manhole inspection camera head · Flashlight beam on stalactites at Luyang Cave, Catanduanes · Crumbled stone on sand · Archivage SIAr-099 Numerisation 2 · New York Transit Museum Archives, Shelves of videos · TRJE15 (22547298466) *CC-BY:* North Face Corridor, Great Pyramid, muography · East West cut view of the Great Pyramid and front view of the North face Chevron area · Great Pyramid Air Shaft (39752498153) · Looking upwards, along the Grand Gallery, inside the Great Pyramid 1984 · The Dixon Relics (45853449385) · Inside the Red Pyramid, the 61m passage leading to the master chamber · Massive corbel vaulted ceiling of the main burial chamber, Red Pyramid · Inside the burial chamber of the Pyramid of Teti at Saqqara (1) · Tomb of Ti, Saqqara (21) · Dr. Zahi Hawass at the British Museum · 2009, Laeken, Grave galleries · Imaiging of Gran Cava cave in San Silvestro Archaeo Mining Park using muon radiography · Cloud chamber · Kedr-detector-inp-0811 · ANATROLLER ARI-100 Duct cleaning and Inspection robot · Cedrus wood 1 · Milky Way Night Sky Black Rock Desert Nevada · Archival boxes in museum storage *archive.org:* Buttressed wall, Saqqara, 1985 (CC-BY) /bollack-killian-slides-001109 · Doorway in stone wall with engaged fluted columns, Saqqara, 1985 (CC-BY) /bollack-killian-slides-001098 · Unas Causeway, stars in ceiling, Saqqara, 1985 (CC-BY) /bollack-killian-slides-001116 · The Pyramid Texts inscribed on the Walls of Unas's Burial Chamber (CC-BY-SA) /the-pyramid-texts-inscribed-on-the-walls-of-unas-s-burial-chamber-endlos · Giza. Pyramids (CC-BY-NC) /giza-pyramids