The Pyramids are one of the seven wonders of the world and there’s still so much we don’t know about them despite the fact we’ve been investigating them for thousands of years.

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Case in point – a new mysterious void has been discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza today. Scientists had been attempting to map the pyramid using cosmic ray based imaging and discovered that there was an unknown void in it that indicates the possibility of another chamber.

The void was located above the Grand Gallery that links two of the pyramid’s main chambers and is roughly 30 metres long. Unfortunately, nobody at this point knows how to access it or if they will ever be able to get in there. Researchers are hoping that they will be able to access it one day though, and that once studied it may finally reveal how the pyramids were constructed.

Report author Mehdi Tayoubi said the following:

This structure is not accessible, we don’t see (that) people tried, if you look at the Grand Gallery, to access the void which is above.

So this void was hidden, I think, since the construction of the Pyramid, it was not accessible.

We needed this technique – the right technique at the right time – to be able to identify it and discover it.

We’re very confident the results are correct.

Not really saying too much there are you pal? In case you’re wondering how they managed to discover the chamber, they employed byproducts of cosmic rays called muons that are only partially absorbed by stone and take different trajectories through air. Detectors were set up inside the pyramid and this allowed it to be visualised without disturbing it.

The results were checked three times, so Tayoubi is right to say he’s confident of the results. What it actually means though is anyone’s guess, but perhaps it could lead to us finding out just how the hec those things were built.

For more pyramids, check out this guy filming himself illegally climbing them. Balls.