Third door discovered in Great Pyramid
Egypt, Local, 9/25/2002

Egyptian Minister of Culture and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) Farouq Hosni said this week that the US National Geographic Society's mission discovered a third door inside the Queen's chamber in the Pyramid of Khufu.

ÊÊÊ Hosni pointed out that the new find was supervised by the Egyptian archaeologists.

ÊÊÊ Last Tuesday, Egyptian and foreign archaeologists conducted a scientific experiment by sending a robot, the Pyramid rover, inside the Great Pyramid, which peered in a narrow shaft and opened into the Queen's Chamber.

ÊÊÊ On his part, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, said that they sent the robot all the way through the upper northern shaft and found that the pyramid's passage sloped northward into different directions, since the ancient Egyptians endeavored to avoid the Pyramid's-treat hall.

ÊÊÊ The new discovery, Hawas said, reveals that there are three doors inside the Great Pyramid, leaving the Egyptologists in a state of perplexity.

ÊÊÊ Hawas stated that such doors were constructed for religious purposes due to the books found there, such as "the gateways," "the cavities,Ó and "two road" which guided the dead to the hereafter and warned them against the dangers they might face.

ÊÊÊ Hawas said that the Great PyramidÕs entrance was facing the polar star until the interior design of the pyramid was changed, forming a labyrinth of corridors to mislead thieves.

ÊÊÊ Hawas added that the pharaohs might have used such doors as a symbol of their ascendance to heaven.

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