New Discoveries Next to the Great Pyramid of Giza
In a video I published on February 7th this year, I showed how a new archaeological mission was underway in the Western Cemetery of the Giza Plateau, directly west of the Great Pyramid, and north of the Pyramid of Khafre.
2024-05-11 21:00:00 - Today
As I mentioned and showed in this video, the team had conducted geophysical surveys on this square patch of land in 2017, but what I didn’t know was that a second set of surveys took place between 2021 and 2023.
This week, the Japanese-Egyptian team has released a new research article documenting their survey results, and the ground-penetrating radar data shows a 15 metre x 10 metre L-shaped archaeological structure at depth.
Furthermore, the team are currently excavating the same area of land, and according to the Instagram page of Dr. Sakuji Yoshimura, new discoveries have been made, including a tomb of an Old Kingdom aristocrat and a wooden coffin.
00:00 Introduction
00:27 The Search for King Khufu
01:04 Excavations in the Western Cemetery
01:52 Geophysics Results from 2017
02:43 New Geophysics Survey Results
03:30 L-Shaped Structure Discovered
06:27 Discovery of an Aristocrat's Tomb
07:01 Discovery of a Wooden Coffin
08:08 The Search for Khufu Continues
08:29 Concluding Remarks