Beneath the Giza Plateau, a massive new discovery is threatening to rewrite everything we thought we knew about ancient Egypt. Archaeologists working with advanced scanning technology have identified a vast, previously unknown structure buried deep beneath the sands, far larger than anything mapped before.
Archaeologists working in Luxor on the west bank of the Nile made an unexpected discovery during a routine excavation at the courtyard of a tomb belonging to a man named Senna. The team, led by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation, broke into a sealed chamber carved into the bedrock that had not been documented previously. Inside, they found 22 painted wooden coffi…