Using cosmic ray detectors, lasers and drones to take thermal images, scientists are hoping to discover new tombs and hidden burial chambers behind the walls of the Great Pyramid of Giza. On October 25, “Operation Scan Pyramids” began its first stage of analysis and the data collected didn’t fail to deliver.
Mysterious heat spots were found in the monuments, specifically at the lower level of Cheops (the great pyramid) where scientists discovered that an area of blocks, had a temperature much greater than its neighbouring stones.
Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamduh al-Damati, says that (1) three of the limestone blocks in the first row on the Great Pyramid were “different in formation,” and that a similar situation was found in the middle of the pyramid’s eastern side. Additional ground scans have suggested that “there is something like a small passage leading up to the pyramid ground, reaching an area with a different temperature,”.
