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BACK PASSAGE

There has been much media hullabaloo about the discovery of a secret passage some 9m (30ft) long and 2.1m (7ft) wide inside Egypt’s famous Great Pyramid (the Pyramid of Khufu). Though its presence was actually known about back in 2016, its interior has only now been imaged. Its early detection was by means of muography, used

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