TheGreat Pyramid of Gizahas obdurately held onto its secret for G of years , yet scientist now desire to reveal the renowned social structure ’s inner mystery by muster in the help of cosmic rays . alas , this challenging scheme requires the use of a massive telescope that is too large to fit inside the pyramid and does n’t even exist yet , yet the authors of anas yet un - peer review studysay they ’ve stupefy everything enter out .

Built by the pharaohKhufuaround 4,500 years ago , the Great Pyramid of Giza was explore extensively by archaeologist back in the 19thcentury . Stepping into the deepest entrails of the ancient marvel , excavators follow across three internal pit , known as the King ’s Chamber – where a stone sarcophagus , possibly belong to Khufu himself , is located – the Queen ’s Chamber , and the Grand Gallery .

However , suspect the honest-to-goodness pharaoh of adding a few extra out of sight compartment to his repository , scientist decided to glance over the pyramid back in 2015 . To do so , they placed a series of muon detectors inside the Queen ’s chamber .

Muons are negatively charged uncomplicated particles that are produced whencosmic rayscollide with atoms in the Earth ’s ambience . It ’s intend that every square metre of the satellite is bombarded with around 10,000 muons per minute , and researchers have antecedently model the intimate structure of volcanoes by evaluate the flow of these particles through solid rock .

Because muons are stymy by stone , the rate at which these corpuscle hit the sense organ was greatly work by any cavities above the Queen ’s Chamber . This allowed the researchers to reveal the front oftwo previously undetected voidswithin the Great Pyramid , one of which measured 30 meter ( ~100 feet ) in length .

Whether these secret openings house the cadaver of an ancient pharaoh or simply played a working role in the construction of the pyramid is not yet bonk , which is why the generator of the novel preprint paper design to examine them in greater detail . Doing so , however , will take the creation of a serious piece of setup .

“ We plan to field a telescope system that has upwards of 100 meter the sensitivity of the equipment that has recently been used at the Great Pyramid , will picture muons from nearly all angles and will , for the first time , farm a true tomographic image of such a enceinte structure , ” they publish .

“ We are currently in the process of constructing the prototype telescope . ”

When built , this equipment is potential to be too large to fit inside the pyramid , mean it wo n’t be used to measure the flow of muons fall through the stone from above . Instead , the team plans to take measurements from multiple angles around the exterior of the structure .

Explaining how this can be achieved , they write that “ for each muon that is detected by the telescope , the muon flight is reckon and project back into the Great Pyramid . These “ back - send off ” tracks are then used to fill up 3D histogram act voxels of the inside of the Pyramids of Egypt that the cut lead through . ”

Speaking toLive Science , study generator Alan Bross say that he and his colleague are still try funding to manufacture their cosmic pharaoh electronic scanner . " Once we have full financing , we believe it will take [ about ] two years to progress the detectors , " he added .

Then perchance Khufu will finally give up his secret .