If you think these other scientific discoveries found in a backyard or local property were interesting, they don’t hold a candle to this. An Egyptian man named Nagy was digging in his backyard in 2014, which was technically illegal. In doing so, he uncovered large stone blocks. Without realizing it, Nagy uncovered a corridor roughly 33 feet beneath the ground. When Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities learned about Nagy’s discovery, he sent archeologists to his home. What he found was a causeway to the Pyramid of Khufu, the oldest of all the remaining Giza pyramids.
[Image via Celli07/Shutterstock.com]Funny enough, archaeologists had been searching for this exact corridor for more than three decades. Herodotus actually mentioned it in his Histories writing and claimed he even visited it in the 5th century BCE. He wrote that the passage was enclosed and covered in reliefs. However, before Nagy, only small remnants were ever found. The Khufu pyramid complex is said to have a connection to a lost temple near the Nile River. Due to this, the discovery of the causeway allowed archeologists to assume the temple might be buried beneath the village of Nazlet el-Samman. Perhaps, they will go digging there to find out one day.
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