Update: The Secret Door Inside The Queen’s Chamber to be Finally Opened!
Published by After many years of waiting, the 2nd sealed door inside of a shaft in the Queen’s chamber in the Great Pyramid will be finally opened. A small team from National Geographic along with the Egyptian Antiquities Department and Zahi Hawass are planning on re-attempting to find out exactly what is hidden behind these two small doors. The first door was drilled through a few years ago and it revealed another door blocking the shaft. The researchers will again attempt to drill through this second door and then position a small camera inside to determine what lies behind the blocked shaft.
Is a secret area inside of the Great Pyramid going to be finally revealed after thousands of years of being sealed off? Does a small shaft leading upwards from the Queen’s Chamber contain any big treasures? One thing is certain and that is there are no shortages of legends telling of secret rooms and shafts inside of the Great Pyramid but after years of careful research, most Egyptologists are fairly certain that there are no large areas inside of the pyramid that are still hidden. This is not the case with a shaft leading upwards from the Queen’s Chamber though. The shaft is very small in size and is completely blocked by two small doors with copper handles attached to them. Egyptologists have multiple reasons of what this shaft could have been used for. Among them are ventilation shafts, some kind of astronomical function, or a path for the King’s soul to ascend to the stars and therefore the afterlife. Of course, the real reason could very well not even be among these three possibilities and might never be fully understood.
In 2002, a team led by Zahi Hawass and the Egyptian Antiquities Department along with the National Geographic Channel started a research experiment to explore what lay hidden behind the stone doors inside of the shaft. A robot nicknamed the “pyramid rover” was constructed to make its way up the shaft until it reached the stone door obstructing the rest of the tunnel. At that point, the robot would drill out a small opening on the stone door and place a small camera inside of the hole to see what lay hidden on the other side. On September 17, 2002, on live television throughout the world, the drilling was completed and the camera was inserted to reveal ……….. another stone door. This second door was a complete mystery to all the researchers and Egyptologists and continues to remain a puzzle. There is huge excitement over what may lie hidden behind this second door as one researcher said “It (the 2nd door) is not similar to the first in that it looks as if it is screening or covering something. There were also cracks all over the surface.”
So, what lies hidden behind this second door? Almost every researcher involved with the project is certain that the shaft is not hiding anything of any considerable size due to the dimensions of the shaft itself. Now, this does not mean that there is nothing hidden behind the door either. But whether there will be found something or nothing, all of the researchers involved agree that it will answer questions either way. So, when can we expect the drilling of the second door to start? Most of the team members are aiming for the mid 2011 time period to fully complete the testing and then the actual exploration of the shaft. So, it looks like we only have a few more months wait before a space that has been sealed for thousands of years is finally revealed again.
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On February 8, 2011 at 5:34 am
Ooh loved this… Thoth/Khufu’s temple is finally being unveiled piece by piece… mind you, if there\’s anything half interesting behind that door, they won’t tell us. *Grins* Fantastic post.
On February 8, 2011 at 5:37 am
Excellent Article, but don’t you think that now and again it is sometimes better not to know
On February 8, 2011 at 9:50 am
Amazing. I am still not sure people should be opening these graves though…
On February 8, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Very cool. Will there be treasure or just another door?
On February 8, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Man I love this stuff!
On February 9, 2011 at 12:39 pm
@Wizard Brown: It was (the Great Pyramid) was not built nor intended as a grave.
@John : totally agree!
It’s my belief that they will find another shaft going down behind that door…well its more of a stopper than a door.
Did you know that the 1st door had copper protrusions? They aren’t handles as hawass says. Also they is another shaft they found that at the end of It they also found these copper protrusions. hmm, ya know, if I were a betting man id almost think that whole think is like a giant chemical battery…just add certain chemicals.
But, what do I know, besides as stated previously anything they find hawass will cover-up especially if it shows his ancestors didn’t actually build the thing!
On February 9, 2011 at 2:46 pm
“Most of the team members are aiming for the mid 2010 time period to fully complete the testing and then the actual exploration of the shaft” When was this article written? Testing should be complete, but where is the current status update?
On February 10, 2011 at 9:25 am
So what are they waiting for. As soon as it turns more quiet in Egypt it’s time to reveal the secret.
On February 10, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Absolutely amazing! Imagine that after 2000 years we are now just about to begin to unravel the mystery of the great pyramid… I would bet though zahi hawass and the egyptian government will censor the findings.
On February 11, 2011 at 9:35 am
mubarak lives there…
On February 11, 2011 at 11:09 pm
that is pretty interesting.
On February 12, 2011 at 9:29 pm
@Dferg208
Its been alot longer than 2000 years. Its been atleast 5000. But evidence is being uncovered suggesting they are alot older. Some archeologists theorize 10,000 years old.
On February 14, 2011 at 9:24 am
Queen’s Chamber | Decontamination | Nasty stuff!
Can’t wait!
On February 19, 2011 at 3:31 am
I am not sure what they are waiting for to mid of 2011.May be the 2nd lead to the 3rd.So it should be a faster revealing process.
On February 24, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Awesome article! Yes I’ll be happy to p[ing fm it for you my friend.
On February 27, 2011 at 10:29 pm
This is complete and utter crap!! OOOOOHHHH they are going to open a door…. probably to find another door…
Zahi hawass is a complete a$$, arrogant, brash and rude!
They should be looking under the paw of the sphinx! Instead of wasting money in expensive robots to crawl up shafts.
On February 28, 2011 at 7:50 pm
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On March 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm
The best article
On April 8, 2011 at 4:15 pm
It is NOT a tomb, and the king/ queen chambers are just names assigned to the two largest rooms. best idea I have heard is the structure is some kind of astronomical observatory
On April 9, 2011 at 10:45 am
Very exciting! I can’t believe the hatred against Dr. Hawass. Yes, he has a knack for the theatrical, but he is also a scientist, archeologist, and historian. I think that the anger stems from the fact that he doesn’t cater to the fantastical fantasies of the ancient alien/extremely high levels of civilizations/Northern European civilizations being the first/ and other nutty theories that pervade the internet. Let science follow scientific reasoning and methods not fantasies!
On April 10, 2011 at 4:29 am
What will happen now that Hawass has been sacked?
On April 15, 2011 at 11:56 pm
I too am curious and wish to know!
On April 20, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Great article – and very cool. It must be so exciting to be involved in the research – and to be there when that door is opened. Thanks for a superb read.
On April 21, 2011 at 10:30 am
There is even a light bulb depicted on some of the walls. Cognitive reasoning leads me to only one theory that makes the best sense. This was a big power station, or wet battery. As others said, a chemical battery. This to the objective mind should………….prove self evident. Over and out.
On May 11, 2011 at 12:52 pm
alien resurrection! i can\\\’t wait!
On August 7, 2011 at 2:45 am
So if I understand this correctly, they’ve been looking at one side of a small block of stone for nine years and haven’t made any progress beyond that? Nine years?? Are you kidding me? Just drill a hole in it already and put the camera through like they did with the first door.
On October 4, 2011 at 2:31 am
Rest assured, whatever is found won’t be shared with the general public…..not yet anyway
On November 2, 2011 at 3:53 am
So, with a huge monument like the Great Pyramid, it has two tiny little bits of copper and the nutters immediately think the whole damned thing was a BATTERY?
On November 2, 2011 at 4:02 am
Many people have proposed and volunteered to do the work. Gatenbrink himself prepared a new robot and has been waiting for years for permission to continue the exploration, but Hawass always refused. Instead of trying to open the doors to scientific undertakings, he seemed bent on holding it back. For example, ground penetrating radar shows there is a room of some sort under the Queen’s chamber. But he has always procrastinated and prevented any further analysis, because they don’t agree with his own fixed ideas. But he’s quick to stage “findings” of things which have been known about for many years – such as “The Osiris Chamber”. The man is a pompous fraud.
On November 2, 2011 at 10:35 am
@Johanne, I would advise you to read The Giza Power Plant by Christopher Dunn and then if you still feel the same about the nutters, I will respect your comment.
On November 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Johanne can suck both my nutters.