6 Incredible Facts of the Great Pyramid of Giza

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Hidden Chambers

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Cultural and Religious Importance

The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and tourists for centuries. 

In a shocking event, a paraglider caught a bizarre scene of a dog roaming at the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, leaving him and those who saw it in the video puzzled as to how the animal managed to climb such a height.

The jaw-dropping footage of the dog was shared on social media and it soon went viral. The visuals of the video showed that the canine somehow managed to scale what at one point in time was the tallest human-built structure for nearly 4,000 years.

The dog was caught by paraglider Alex Lang when he passed by the 455ft Great Pyramid, which is the largest among the three pyramids in Giza, Egypt on October 14.

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The video uploaded by Lang was reshared by adventure athlete Marshall Mosher, who had more than 592,300 likes on Instagram.

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<h2>Here's how social media reacted to the video</h2>

"If he [the dog]pees there, all Egypt belongs to him," wrote one Instagram user.

"Not a dog. That is the Egyptian God Anubis. He is considered the guide of the dead in the afterlife and the protector of the tombs. That's why it is over the pyramid," wrote another.

"I wonder how long it took him. I want him to come down and get some water," commented a third user.

It remains unknown how the dog climbed above the pyramid and how it was eventually brought down.

After the video was circulated on Instagram, a user shared it on X with the caption, "Dog spotted hanging out on the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt."

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A lot of reactions also poured on X.

"The man who filmed the incident from his powered paraglider says the dog was barking at birds," said a user.

"The Great Pyramid of Giza is a whopping 450 feet tall meaning the dog had to take a long hike to the top," another user added.

"That's his pyramid now. He conquered it," wrote a third user.

"Sometimes you just gotta climb the highest hill and bark at some birds, man," joked a fourth user.

"Those blocks are BIG. That's a crazy climb for a dog. I'm not convinced," commented a fifth user.

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In a shocking event, a paraglider caught a bizarre scene of a dog roaming at the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, leaving him and those who saw it in the video puzzled as to how the animal managed to climb such a height.

In a shocking event, a paraglider caught a bizarre scene of a dog roaming at the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, leaving him and those who saw it in the video puzzled as to how the animal managed to climb such a height. The jaw-dropping footage of the dog was shared on social media and it soon went viral. The visuals of the video showed that the canine somehow managed to scale what at one point in time was the tallest human-built structure for nearly 4,000 years. The dog was caught by paraglider Alex Lang when he passed by the 455ft Great Pyramid, which is the largest among the three pyramids in Giza, Egypt on October 14. Nothing special too see, just a dog that climbed all the way up the Great Pyramid of Giza [📹 marshallmosher]pic.twitter.com/HWKw8FjnUY — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 15, 2024 × The video uploaded by Lang was reshared by adventure athlete Marshall Mosher, who had more than 592,300 likes on Instagram. Also Read: Fact check: Did Ratan Tata's pet dog 'Goa' die three days after his death? Here's how social media reacted to the video "If he [the dog]pees there, all Egypt belongs to him," wrote one Instagram user. "Not a dog. That is the Egyptian God Anubis. He is considered the guide of the dead in the afterlife and the protector of the tombs. That's why it is over the pyramid," wrote another. "I wonder how long it took him. I want him to come down and get some water," commented a third user. It remains unknown how the dog climbed above the pyramid and how it was eventually brought down. After the video was circulated on Instagram, a user shared it on X with the caption, "Dog spotted hanging out on the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt." Watch: Viral Robot Dog Video Sparks Reactions as Real Dogs Encounter Their Robotic Doppelgangers A lot of reactions also poured on X. "The man who filmed the incident from his powered paraglider says the dog was barking at birds," said a user. "The Great Pyramid of Giza is a whopping 450 feet tall meaning the dog had to take a long hike to the top," another user added. "That's his pyramid now. He conquered it," wrote a third user. "Sometimes you just gotta climb the highest hill and bark at some birds, man," joked a fourth user. "Those blocks are BIG. That's a crazy climb for a dog. I'm not convinced," commented a fifth user. (With inputs from agencies)

Dog mysteriously climbs to top of 455ft Great Pyramid of Giza, gets captured by paraglider

Here, we bring you the news that is trending across WION's social media platforms - Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, even after over 4,500 years of its existence, is continuing to drop unique nuggets of history embedded within its millennia old mystique. Now, a hidden corridor nine metres (30 feet) long has been discovered close to the main entrance of the pyramid. The latest discovery could lead to further findings, Egyptian antiquities officials said on Thursday.

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A long-lost artefact from the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of only three objects ever recovered from inside the last remaining wonder of the ancient world, has been found in a chance discovery Aberdeen, a city in Scotland.&nbsp;

The chance discovery was made by a member of staff at the University of Aberdeen during a collection review.

The small fragment of 5,000-year-old wood is one of a trio of items discovered by engineer Waynman Dixon inside the pyramid’s Queens Chamber in 1872.

The piece of cedar -- which is believed may have been used during the pyramid's construction -- was donated to the university in 1946 but then could not be located.

Curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany, originally from Egypt, found it while conducting a review of items housed in the university's Asia collection.

Known as the ‘Dixon relics’, two of them – a ball and hook – are housed in the British Museum, but the wood was missing.

Covid restrictions intially delayed the dating of the rediscovered cedar fragment.

Results have recently been returned and show that the wood can be dated to somewhere in the period 3341-3094 BC.

The cedar fragment originally belonged to a much larger piece of wood, which was most recently seen in a 1993 exploration of the interior of the pyramid.

A long-lost artefact from the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of only three objects ever recovered from inside the last remaining wonder of the ancient world, has been found in a chance discovery Aberdeen, a city in Scotland.

A long-lost artefact from the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of only three objects ever recovered from inside the last remaining wonder of the ancient world, has been found in a chance discovery Aberdeen, a city in Scotland. The chance discovery was made by a member of staff at the University of Aberdeen during a collection review. The small fragment of 5,000-year-old wood is one of a trio of items discovered by engineer Waynman Dixon inside the pyramid’s Queens Chamber in 1872. The piece of cedar -- which is believed may have been used during the pyramid's construction -- was donated to the university in 1946 but then could not be located. Curatorial assistant Abeer Eladany, originally from Egypt, found it while conducting a review of items housed in the university's Asia collection. Known as the ‘Dixon relics’, two of them – a ball and hook – are housed in the British Museum, but the wood was missing. Covid restrictions intially delayed the dating of the rediscovered cedar fragment. Results have recently been returned and show that the wood can be dated to somewhere in the period 3341-3094 BC. The cedar fragment originally belonged to a much larger piece of wood, which was most recently seen in a 1993 exploration of the interior of the pyramid.

Lost artefact from Great Pyramid of Giza found in Aberdeen cigar box

After a car-sized asteroid went past the Earth, NASA scientists say an asteroid twice the size of&nbsp;the Great Pyramid of Giza is set to hit the&nbsp;Earth's orbit on Sunday.

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The asteroid called the "Near-Earth Object" will be entering the Earth's orbit on September 6, according to NASA scientists.

The huge object is reportedly travelling at a speed of 31,400mph. The scientists have reportedly been tracking it since 2010. The asteroid, dubbed 465824 (2010 FR), will be 4.6 million miles away from the Earth and poses no threat to our planet, however, it has been classified as "close approach"&nbsp;by NASA.

The asteroid is reported to be 120-270 metres in diameter which is twice as big as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

An SUV-sized asteroid had passed Earth's orbit last month which was 1,830 miles away, the closest an asteroid has ever been observed passing the planet.

The asteroid named "2020 QG" was reportedly three to six meters long moving at nearly eight miles per second, the scientists had said.

NASA had said that similarly sized asteroids pass by Earth at a similar distance a few times per year, however, they are&nbsp;difficult to record, unless they&nbsp;head&nbsp;directly towards the planet, in which case the explosion in the atmosphere is usually noticed.

After a car-sized asteroid went past the Earth, NASA scientists say an asteroid twice the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza is set to hit the Earth's orbit on Sunday.

After a car-sized asteroid went past the Earth, NASA scientists say an asteroid twice the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza is set to hit the Earth's orbit on Sunday. Also Read: Students from Gujarat in India spot an asteroid heading towards Earth The asteroid called the "Near-Earth Object" will be entering the Earth's orbit on September 6, according to NASA scientists. The huge object is reportedly travelling at a speed of 31,400mph. The scientists have reportedly been tracking it since 2010. The asteroid, dubbed 465824 (2010 FR), will be 4.6 million miles away from the Earth and poses no threat to our planet, however, it has been classified as "close approach" by NASA. The asteroid is reported to be 120-270 metres in diameter which is twice as big as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. An SUV-sized asteroid had passed Earth's orbit last month which was 1,830 miles away, the closest an asteroid has ever been observed passing the planet. The asteroid named "2020 QG" was reportedly three to six meters long moving at nearly eight miles per second, the scientists had said. NASA had said that similarly sized asteroids pass by Earth at a similar distance a few times per year, however, they are difficult to record, unless they head directly towards the planet, in which case the explosion in the atmosphere is usually noticed.

Asteroid bigger than Great Pyramid of Giza to hit Earth's orbit this week

A passenger plane-sized &quot;void&quot; has been discovered in the middle of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, where it has lain secret and untouched for 4,500 years, scientists revealed on Thursday.

The space is one of four cavities, along with the king and queen&#39;s chambers and &quot;Grand Gallery&quot;, now known to exist inside the giant monument constructed under pharaoh Khufu of ancient Egypt.

&quot;It is big,&quot; said co-discoverer Mehdi Tayoubi of the ScanPyramids project, which has been exploring Khufu&#39;s pyramid since October 2015 with non-invasive technology using subatomic particle scans.

&quot;It&#39;s the size of a 200-seater airplane, in the heart of the pyramid,&quot; Tayoubi told AFP of the discovery, published in science journal Nature.

Towering over the Giza complex on Cairo&#39;s outskirts alongside smaller pyramids for kings Menkaure and Khafre and the Great Sphinx, the Khufu&#39;s pyramid is the oldest and only surviving construction among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and one of the largest buildings ever erected on Earth.

The cavity is the first major structure found inside the Great Pyramid since the 19th century, the research team said.

&quot;There have been many theories about the existence of secret chambers inside the pyramid,&quot; said Tayoubi. &quot;But none have predicted anything this big.&quot;

The exact shape and size of the void are fuzzy -- its purpose and possible contents a mystery.

But it is thought to be at least 30 metres (98 feet) long, and located above the &quot;Grand Gallery&quot; -- a sloped corridor almost 50 m long and 9 m high which links Khufu&#39;s burial chamber at the pyramid&#39;s centre to a tunnel leading outside.

Untouched for 4,500 years&nbsp;

The monument&nbsp;139 metres high today, and 230 metres wide was erected as a tomb for Khufu, also known as Cheops. To this day, nobody knows quite how it was built.

The void said co-author Kunihiro Morishima from the Nagoya University in Japan, &quot;was not known by anyone until now, from when the pyramid was built 4,500 years ago&quot;.

&quot;The big void is completely closed,&quot; he added, which means anything inside it would not have been &quot;touched by anyone after the pyramid (was) built&quot;.

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt built these monumental tombs for themselves, complete with sarcophagus to hold their embalmed mummies, and stocked with everything they could require for the afterlife -- food, clothing, and jewellery.

Khufu&#39;s pyramid was plundered long before it was visited by modern archaeologists, and no relics remain from any of the known chambers.

For this reason, the new cavity may be &quot;very exciting,&quot; said Morishima, though it is not known if it contains anything at all.

The team used a technique called &quot;cosmic-ray muon radiography&quot;, which allowed them to visualise &quot;known and potentially unknown&quot; voids in the pyramid without having to touch a single stone.

Muons are charged, heavy particles formed from the interactions of cosmic rays with atoms in the upper atmosphere.

Similar to X-rays which can penetrate the human body and allow bone imaging, these particles can follow a mostly straight line through several hundreds of metres of stone before decaying or being absorbed, the team said.

By recording the position and direction of each muon as it travels through the pyramid, muon detectors can distinguish cavities from stone.

High confidence&nbsp;

&quot;We will continue to conduct muon imaging for revealing the detail&quot; of the void, said Morishima including its dimensions and inclination, and whether it consists of a single, large cavity or a complex of several.

&quot;Our muon imaging technology can&#39;t confirm (whether) there are some artifacts or not,&quot; he added. Anything inside would be &quot;too small for muon imaging.&quot;

The team is already turning its attention to new technology for the next step possibly a miniature robot that can travel through tiny holes to examine the inside of the void without disturbing anything.

The discovery, named simply &quot;Big Void&quot;, has been confirmed using three different muon technologies and three independent analyses, verifying its existence with &quot;high confidence,&quot; the authors said.

&quot;While there is currently no information about the role of this void, these findings show how modern particle physics can shed new light on the world&#39;s archaeological heritage,&quot; the authors wrote in Nature.

'It's the size of a 200-seater airplane, in the heart of the pyramid,' co-discoverer Mehdi Tayoubi said

A passenger plane-sized "void" has been discovered in the middle of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, where it has lain secret and untouched for 4,500 years, scientists revealed on Thursday. The space is one of four cavities, along with the king and queen's chambers and "Grand Gallery", now known to exist inside the giant monument constructed under pharaoh Khufu of ancient Egypt. "It is big," said co-discoverer Mehdi Tayoubi of the ScanPyramids project, which has been exploring Khufu's pyramid since October 2015 with non-invasive technology using subatomic particle scans. "It's the size of a 200-seater airplane, in the heart of the pyramid," Tayoubi told AFP of the discovery, published in science journal Nature. Towering over the Giza complex on Cairo's outskirts alongside smaller pyramids for kings Menkaure and Khafre and the Great Sphinx, the Khufu's pyramid is the oldest and only surviving construction among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and one of the largest buildings ever erected on Earth. The cavity is the first major structure found inside the Great Pyramid since the 19th century, the research team said. "There have been many theories about the existence of secret chambers inside the pyramid," said Tayoubi. "But none have predicted anything this big." The exact shape and size of the void are fuzzy -- its purpose and possible contents a mystery. But it is thought to be at least 30 metres (98 feet) long, and located above the "Grand Gallery" -- a sloped corridor almost 50 m long and 9 m high which links Khufu's burial chamber at the pyramid's centre to a tunnel leading outside. Untouched for 4,500 years The monument 139 metres high today, and 230 metres wide was erected as a tomb for Khufu, also known as Cheops. To this day, nobody knows quite how it was built. The void said co-author Kunihiro Morishima from the Nagoya University in Japan, "was not known by anyone until now, from when the pyramid was built 4,500 years ago". "The big void is completely closed," he added, which means anything inside it would not have been "touched by anyone after the pyramid (was) built". The pharaohs of ancient Egypt built these monumental tombs for themselves, complete with sarcophagus to hold their embalmed mummies, and stocked with everything they could require for the afterlife -- food, clothing, and jewellery. Khufu's pyramid was plundered long before it was visited by modern archaeologists, and no relics remain from any of the known chambers. For this reason, the new cavity may be "very exciting," said Morishima, though it is not known if it contains anything at all. The team used a technique called "cosmic-ray muon radiography", which allowed them to visualise "known and potentially unknown" voids in the pyramid without having to touch a single stone. Muons are charged, heavy particles formed from the interactions of cosmic rays with atoms in the upper atmosphere. Similar to X-rays which can penetrate the human body and allow bone imaging, these particles can follow a mostly straight line through several hundreds of metres of stone before decaying or being absorbed, the team said. By recording the position and direction of each muon as it travels through the pyramid, muon detectors can distinguish cavities from stone. High confidence "We will continue to conduct muon imaging for revealing the detail" of the void, said Morishima including its dimensions and inclination, and whether it consists of a single, large cavity or a complex of several. "Our muon imaging technology can't confirm (whether) there are some artifacts or not," he added. Anything inside would be "too small for muon imaging." The team is already turning its attention to new technology for the next step possibly a miniature robot that can travel through tiny holes to examine the inside of the void without disturbing anything. The discovery, named simply "Big Void", has been confirmed using three different muon technologies and three independent analyses, verifying its existence with "high confidence," the authors said. "While there is currently no information about the role of this void, these findings show how modern particle physics can shed new light on the world's archaeological heritage," the authors wrote in Nature.

Plane-sized 'void' found in Great Pyramid: Scientists