Will the mysterious chamber of King Khufu be discovered?

A powerful new survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza can finally reveal what's inside two mysterious rooms.

Experts are preparing to use cosmic rays to conduct a new, ultra-strong survey of the 4,500-year-old memorial. It will allow them to analyze muons - negatively charged particles that form when cosmic rays collide with atoms in Earth's atmosphere - in more detail. These particles behave differently when interacting with stone, compared to air.

It will help researchers map what is hiding within two mysterious areas of the Great Pyramid.

In their new proposal, the experts wrote: "We plan to place a telescope system that has a sensitivity 100 times greater than the equipment recently used in the Great Pyramid. Since the proposed detectors are too large, they cannot be placed inside the pyramid, so our approach is to place them outside and move them along base. In this way, we can collect muons from all angles to build up the required data set. The use of very large muon telescopes located outside the Great Pyramid can produce high-resolution images due to the large number of muons detected."

The ScanPyramids project was launched a few years ago to provide various non-invasive technologies to provide a better understanding of their structure. And it made a breakthrough in 2016 when it revealed a previously unknown small cavity in the north face of the pyramid.

One year later, experts announced the discovery of the "Big Void", a previously unknown 30-meter space located above the Grand Gallery.

This led to great excitement at the time as some speculated that the passage might lead to a hidden chamber of Pharaoh Khufu.

It is believed that the pyramid was built for the pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, but his body was never found. But not everyone is convinced.

Egyptologist Dr. Chris Naunton previously said: "This new technology has the potential to show us exciting things. However, the response of my colleagues, who know these pyramids well, we have always known the existence of cavities. It's exciting, but it doesn't take our understanding away.”

Dr. Naunton believes the best solution to the problem is to use a fiber-optic camera - a delicate piece of technology that can be put through a small gap to look inside - rather than making more scans.

He added, "All this sets a fire, and it makes us all very excited, but when it comes to explaining what a cavity is, someone like me would have to go in there to read a engraving. Is it possible to put a fiber-optic camera through the wall and see what's behind it? It seems to me "That's a possibility. It may be possible to do so without causing serious damage to the wall, which has already been extensively restored."