The Great Pyramid: Secret chambers
The Great Pyramid and its mysteries
It is said to be much older than scientists claim. It is even said to date back to prehistoric times. Secret chambers with mysterious artifacts, equipment and disturbing revelations about human history are said to be hidden inside. And even the burial chamber of the supposed builder, filled with fantastic treasures, is said to have eluded our discovery until now. No wonder, as treasure hunters, adventurers and explorers have been trying for centuries to wrest the secrets from the Great Pyramid of Giza by any means necessary. In earlier times, pickaxes, explosives and jackhammers were used to tackle it. Fortunately, today there are more sophisticated methods.
Investigating the Giza pyramids with modern means
Old hat
The discoveries of new cavities within the Pyramid of Khufu, which were celebrated by scientists as a global sensation between 2017 and 2023, turn out to be old hat on closer inspection, as the Giza Pyramids have been regularly examined for decades.
The (all) powerful chief Egyptologist Zahi Hawass said the following at a meeting with researchers from ScanPyramids in 2015: “Everything scientific that has been done with the pyramids in the past 100 years has been nothing but hot air!”
But then, strangely enough, he immediately says: “We know that there must still be cavities, and I really believe that Khufu’s burial chamber is still hidden inside!” Why this blatant contradiction?
You will find the astonishing answer in the presentation of my own pyramid research at the end of this report.
1968: Dr. Luis Alvarez (Nobel Prize winner in physics) from the University of Berkeley, California, examines the pyramid of Khafre to discover hidden chambers. His project is based on the following theory: Pharaoh Khafre successfully protected his pyramid against looting over the millennia by having chambers built in it that could not be reached through a system of passages. Alvarez uses muon detectors for his investigations. So-called spark chambers are used to measure the number of impacts of muons from cosmic rays, which varies depending on the thickness of the pyramid rock. An electronic device registers the coordinates of the sparks generated by the muon hits. An IBM system calculates from the approximately 3 million tracks stored on 80 magnetic tapes whether more muons have hit the detectors from a certain direction than would have been expected given the thickness of the rock to be traversed. If you find what you are looking for, this means that there must be a cavity between the detectors and the outer wall of the pyramid.
However, the measurements produced contradictory results, which is not surprising, as the technology for x-raying stones was still in its infancy at the end of the 1960s.
1974: Scientists from the Stanford Research Institute examine the Great Pyramid with a team from Cairo’s Ain Shams University. Electromagnetic high-frequency waves are used for this purpose. The measurements are apparently positive, but no results are published. The reasons for this remain unclear to this day.
1986: The architects Gilles Dormion and Jean-Patrice Goidin carry out various investigations on and in the Great Pyramid together with engineers and physicists from the French state electricity supply company Electricité de France. Gravity measurements (gravimetry) and time-of-flight measurements with radar waves (echoscopy) are used. The French register anomalies that indicate several cavities that make up about 15-20% of the entire pyramid structure. As the investigation progresses, the two Frenchmen also explore the original entrance to the pyramid and hypothesize that there could be another entrance to the pyramid behind the massive closure stones.
This consideration is 100% consistent with my own observations in April 1988 (see my research report below).
After presenting the results of their research so far, Dormion and Goidin received permission from the Egyptian Antiquities Administration to drill several small holes in the corridor leading to the so-called Queen’s Chamber. In the process, the French actually come across a cavity about 3 meters deep behind the west wall of the corridor, which is filled with fine quartz sand. Zahi Hawass, then chief inspector at the Giza pyramids, was in the USA at the time. Even though the French represented the views of official Egyptology, after Hawass’ return they were refused permission to examine the cavity more closely. The reasons for this also remain unclear.
1987: Professor Sakuji Yoshimura and a team of Japanese scientists from Waseda University in Tokyo carry out new measurements in the Great Pyramid. Two different radar systems are being used this time: one to measure underground reflections and one to search for cavities using radar transmissions. The Japanese also find what they are looking for. Among other things, they discovered a 30-meter-long passage or narrow cavity that could belong to a previously unknown labyrinth, as well as another cavity near the Great Gallery.
However, as with the French before them, the Egyptian authorities forbid Sakuji Yoshimura and his team from carrying out any further investigations in the pyramid. But then things get strange: shortly after the Japanese leave, the Great Pyramid is closed to visitors for several months. According to eyewitnesses, intensive work is being carried out in the pyramid during this time. What are you looking for? What is found? Nobody knows! Inquiries to the Egyptian Antiquities Authority are not answered.
1992: Professor Jean Kérisel examines the descending corridor of the Great Pyramid. Ground penetrating radar is used for this. 30 meters below the pyramid plateau, where the corridor leads into the unfinished rock chamber, the measuring devices located an elongated structure. Kérisel suspects it could be another, deeper passage that crosses the corridor to the rock chamber at an angle of 45° and continues in the direction of the Sphinx. No further information is provided.
2015: Under the direction of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, Japanese, French and Egyptian scientists form a research team called: Scan Pyramids.
A whole series of new investigations should finally clarify whether undiscovered cavities actually exist in the Great Pyramid, as can be read in several ancient traditions. In order to solve the “eternal” mystery, the pyramid is subjected to so-called muon tomography. This method is also used to screen volcanoes.
2017: The sensation is perfect when the research group announces in November: “There really is a large cavity above the Great Gallery. And there is a corridor directly behind the original entrance.”
However, the measurements of the ScanPyramids research group only confirm what has been known for decades and what I have been reporting since 1988.
2019: Further scans will be carried out in the. The results published in November confirm all previous measurements.
2000: Gilles Dormion returns to Egypt. With his new partner and financier Jean-Yves Verd’hurt, he is allowed to carry out further radar measurements in the Great Pyramid. The measurements once again confirmed the existence of hidden rooms. One chamber is said to be slightly shifted to the west below the so-called queen chamber. It lies at the intersection of the diagonals and therefore in the center of the pyramid. According to the French, this could be the actual, previously undiscovered tomb of Pharaoh Cheops. Based on the clear measurement results, Dormion and Verd’hurt apply for permission to drill an exploratory borehole, but Hawass refuses with the very strange reason: “We can’t allow drilling in the pyramid on the basis of hypotheses alone.”
2022: After the researchers from the Japanese-French-Egyptian ScanPyramids project have left, a group of American physicists will scan the Great Pyramid using muon technology.
Exploring the Great Pyramid (EGP), as the mission is called, will operate over the next two years with a new type of muon telescope system, which is 100 times more sensitive than the last technology used.
Four twelve-meter-long technology containers will be used to house the detector system. The containers are set up next to the pyramid. After each scan, they are moved a little further. In the end, the detectors have completely circled the pyramid and thus illuminated it from all sides.
The new technology can be used to determine not only solids and cavities, but also different material densities. The researchers hope that this will provide new information about the previously largely unknown inner structure of the Great Pyramid.
2023: The ScanPyramids research team shows images of a newly discovered cavity within the Great Pyramid for the first time. Officially filmed using an endoscope camera through an accidentally discovered gap in the three blocking stones under the “chevrons” (unofficially through a secret hole drilled in the blocks). Dimensions of the room:
Height: approx. 2 meters / Width: approx. 2 meters / Depth: approx. 9 meters
However, the real sensation is overlooked (see my research report below).
There is only talk of a relief chamber or a former inner ramp for the construction of the pyramid. But why a relief chamber on the outside of the pyramid? And what would be the purpose of a covered indoor ramp? Any serious civil engineer and structural engineer can only shake his head in disbelief.
“Discovering a cavity in a pyramid is really something special. But the fact that this chamber is large enough to hold several people makes it even more significant,” says Prof. Dr. Christian Große from the Chair of Non-Destructive Testing at the Technical University of Munich, who was involved in the study.
Gregor Spörri’s research report on the Great Pyramid
In April 1988, I came into contact with the Great Pyramid for the first time. I was still young and impetuous. After spending a night alone in the building, I climbed to the top at dawn for a daring experiment.
Read more about this:
How it all began
Thanks to a mysterious tip from an elderly grave robber, I also made an incredible discovery in the pyramid. The experiences I had back then have never left me, and so I have been visiting the pyramid regularly for 30 years now.
Read more about this:
The tomb of the giants
The original entrance
Today, tourists enter the pyramid via a tunnel that was cut out of the masonry by the caliph and tomb robber Al-Ma’mun in 832 AD because he apparently could not find the original entrance.
I had the opportunity to explore the area by the original entrance several times. It is located seven meters above the grave robbers’ gallery and 14 meters above the level of the plateau. From there, however, you can only see the massive, double-layered saddle roof construction (the so-called chevrons) towering above the entrance. But even during my first exploration in 1988, I had the feeling that something was wrong here!
Official doctrine on the Great Pyramid
The Tomb of Khufu is a unique monument with a highly impressive interior architecture. Built with the most primitive means around 4500 B.C. The ancient Egyptians are not even said to have known the wheel. The super pharaoh spared no effort to effectively protect his final resting place against looters. Nobody was supposed to know where he would find his final resting place in the gigantic building. So Khufu had the burial chamber sealed, the corridors and passages blocked with granite blocks weighing tons, the entrance to the corridors bricked up and the outer wall of the building covered with polished façade stones so that no one would know the entrance. A gigantic effort for an almost unknown pharaoh.
Structural contradictions
The official doctrine is sometimes in stark contrast to the actual situation on the ground.
1) Access to the pyramid should be kept absolutely secret to protect it from grave robbers (see description above). This is diametrically opposed to the The enormous entrance area on the north side of the pyramid can be seen from afar.
2) The saddle roof construction built over the tiny entrance to the rock chamber, weighing thousands of tons, makes no sense from a structural point of view, as the saddle roof is virtually on the outer wall of the pyramid.
3) The three stone blocks weighing several tons above the entrance to the rock chamber also make absolutely no structural sense.
Mind games
1) The pyramid is significantly older than assumed.
2) It may have been built by a pre-Ice Age civilization.
3) The ancient gods (possibly extraterrestrial visitors) gave the Stone Age people the knowledge (mathematics, physics, mechanics, tools, etc.) to build these monuments.
4) The pyramid was originally not a tomb, but a kind of knowledge vault for the (gods’) elite of the time and a sign of their power visible from afar.
5) Later generations of kings such as Khufu continued to use the pyramid for their ritual purposes and (possibly) as a burial site.
6) The sarcophagus in the so-called King’s Chamber was carved at a later date by stonemasons from granite elements or closure stones already present in the chamber.
The secret chamber or hall of knowledge (Gregor Spörri’s hypothesis)
1) From the plateau, a mighty staircase once led 20 meters up to a magnificent entrance hall with a gabled roof (A) and two entrances below. The demolition points of the gabled roof, which once reached up to the outer wall, are clearly visible (B). The remains of the side walls of the once covered entrance can also be seen (C).
2) The upper entrance is hidden behind three massive closure stones (D, E, F). It leads to the already located “Hall of Knowledge”, which is situated directly above the Great Gallery.
3) The lower entrance (G) leads down to the rock chamber and via a branch inside the pyramid to the so-called Queen’s Chamber, the large gallery and the so-called King’s Chamber.
What is in the secret chamber behind the corridor?
Every Egyptologist in the world wishes for the discovery of Khufu’s intact tomb – a chamber full of treasures, just like Tutankhamun’s. But what if the old legends turn out to be true and things come to light that would radically turn our world view upside down?
Much has been done to the pyramid over the course of time. First, they were stripped of their shiny outer skin and gilded top. Al-Mamun, the seventh Abbasid caliph, then invaded it by force. Today, visitors enter it through the tunnel that Al-Mamun had carved out of its walls with an army of workers around the year 830. The decisive factor for the raid is said to have been a document from the archives of his father, the Caliph Harun Ar-Raschid. According to the document, valuable treasures such as flexible glass, stainless steel and insurmountable weapons awaited the explorer. And in the Hall of Records even the entire knowledge of mankind.
I fear – and this is supported by the previous practice of the Egyptian Antiquities Administration – that the secret of the Great Pyramid will never be revealed, or only to the exclusion of the public. No foreign researchers or the press are guaranteed to be present when the secret chamber is opened. As the old Arabic proverb says: “The pyramids do not fear time, but time fears the pyramids.
How do you get into the Hall of Knowledge without damaging the pyramid structure?
Relatively simple: first the three blocking stones at the entrance are lifted away using a heavy-duty crane, then the blocking stones are pulled out of the corridor one by one using cable winches. The future will tell …
Bibliography
1) Dormion and Goidin published their research results in the two books ‘Khéops – Nouvelle Enquête’ (1986) and ‘Nouveaux Mystères de la Grande Pyramide’ (1987).
2) Professor Sakuji Yoshimura published a final scientific report on his research: Non-Destructive Pyramid Investigation – by Electromagnetic Wave Method, Waseda University, Tokyo (1987).
3) Dormion and Verd’hurt published their research results in the book ‘La chambre de Chéops. Analyse Architecturale’ (2004).
Back to:
Mystery research