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| Pyramid of Cheops (library.thinkquest.org) |
Sometimes, breaking the law has its perks. An Egyptian citizen, identified as "Nagy" by the
Arabic news site Ahram.org,
was illegally digging in his backyard when he found a tunnel leading to
the Pyramid of Khufu. The pyramid, nicknamed "
the Great Pyramid," is the
oldest and largest of the three Giza Pyramids.
Nagy, a resident of the El Haraneya Village, near the Giza Plateau,
dug 33 feet beneath his house before he found the corridor, made from
stone blocks. Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities sent archaeologists to the
scene, and a committee confirmed the passage to be the pyramid's
legendary causeway.
Archaeologists have searched for decades for the passage to the pyramid. The causeway is mentioned in the
Histories
by the Greek Herodotus, who claims to have visited it in the 5th
century B.C.E.
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| Pyramid and Sphinx (whatafy.com) |
Herodotus wrote that the passage was enclosed and covered
in reliefs, but before Nagy's excavation, only small remnants of the
causeway had been found.
The Khufu Pyramid Complex is known to have connected to an
undiscovered temple near the Nile River. Thanks to the new discovery,
archaeologists believe the temple may be buried beneath the village of Nazlet el-Samman.
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