"I believe this may be the most important discovery of the century" . Thus the former minister of antiquities of Egypt, commenting on the discovery - announced by the Egyptian archaeologist-star Zahi Hawass in a press conference held in Cairo - of an unknown gallery inside the great pyramid of Cheops , the oldest in the plain of Giza.

It is a tunnel 9 meters long and just over 2 meters wide, located behind the main entrance.

"We believe that something is hidden under this area," explained Hawass, according to which, under that tunnel, there could be the tomb of the pharaoh Cheops, who died in 2566 BC.

(Unioneonline/lf)

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