Scanning the Pyramid of Khafre: 2025 “Khafre Project” Claims vs. Scientific Scrutiny

Previous scanning projects have yielded exciting, but far more modest, discoveries than what would constitute an “underground city.” The ScanPyramids mission – led by Cairo University and the French HIP Institute – combined multiple technologies (muography, thermography, photogrammetry) to non-destructively probe four pyramids (Khufu, Khafre, Bent, Red). Besides the Big Void, ScanPyramids found a smaller hidden cavity behind Khufu’s north face chevrons (now known to be a corridor) . No publicized voids were detected in Khafre’s pyramid by that effort. In fact, Khafre’s pyramid has been relatively quiet in terms of revelations; its known internal layout consists of a single main burial chamber and a couple of short tunnels, and earlier scans (like Alvarez’s muon experiment) reported no significant anomalies. This was the status quo until claims emerged in 2025 of something dramatically different under Khafre…

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