Recent Researches

In the summer of 1986 discovered by the French architect Jean-Patrice and Gilles Dormion Goidin in the Great Pyramid was still unknown chambers. After they had with electronic microprobe by strong rock can penetrate two-meter, first came up three feet wide and about 5.5 meters high, with sand-filled room to the fore. Furthermore, it was localized behind the northwest wall of the Queens Chamber of another cavity. Both rooms were still not open.

In 1993, the Munich-based engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink investigated in cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Cairo under the direction of Rainer Stadelmann using the mini-robot Upuaut-2, both the Queen's Chamber shafts. These shafts are unlike those of the King's Chamber are no openings on the outer walls of the pyramid. In the northern shaft discovered the device after about forty meters, a fixed bend in a shaft jammed long iron bar that was in 1872 by the English amateur archaeologist and discoverer of the two shafts at a blind Waynman Dixon inspection no longer be removed. A further exploration in this bay was therefore impossible, and it is planned to be removed with a special device one day, this bar again jammed full. In the southern shaft Upuaut-2 65 feet pressed on and then ran into a blocking stone in the construction period, which could suggest a further chamber. This stone was pierced in 2002 with a robot vehicle and inspected with a camera probe. The operation could be simultaneously followed by television in the world. After the blockade was an empty cavity, which is also closed by a blocking stone. Specific findings were not made during the inspection.

In August 2004 Gilles Dormion and hired him geophysicist Jean-Pierre Baron with the help of endoscopes, with further ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic testing revealed the untapped since 4,600 years ago have determined gait. Many Egyptologists think, however, sparked off the speculation about further grave or treasuries for nonsense. In their view, the courses have discovered only a pure statistical significance.