We have drilled through the door, and what did they find? Another door!
In 1992, German scientist Rudolph Gantenbrink discovered a secret door hidden within the Great Pyramid of Giza. The mysterious door was small, only eight inches wide, and it had two copper handles. Gantenbrink discovered it at the end of a 200 foot long shaft leading out of the room known as the Queen's Chamber. Two tunnels, each eight inches wide, had been originally discovered exiting the Queen's Chamber in 1872. Because the passageways were so small, no one had been able to explore them for more than 100 years. They were originally thought to be air ducts or passageways for the souls of the dead to leave by.
In order to discover what was at the end of the tunnels, Gantenbrink built a unique robot with spotlights and a video camera, which moved forward on small rubber treads. The robot's name was Upuaut 2, which means "Opener of the Ways." Gantenbrink navigated the robot remotely until it reached the end of the shaft. The robot's lights illuminated a flat stone door with two copper handles. The copper fittings are very old, so old that they have begun to corrode and are shedding copper residue down the surface of the door. There was a small triangluar gap at the lower right corner of the door, which was probed by the robot's laser and proved to go back into darkness. The door may be designed to slide upwards like a portcullis, and there may be a room or continuing passageway behind it.
In the second, northern shaft of the Queen's Chamber. The robot encounted a sharp leftward bend in the tunnel a wooden object which it could not pass. Soon after his discoveries, the Egyptian government terminated Gantenbrink's permit to do further work. Since 1992, the Queen's Chamber has been closed to the public for long periods of time and any explorations of the shafts and door, if any, have occured in secret.
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