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    The Great Pyramid of Khufu contains three chambers arranged vertically: an unfinished chamber cut into bedrock, a Queen's Chamber (a misnomer), and a King's Chamber reached via an antechamber from the Grand Gallery. The Grand Gallery features corbel vaulting and cut sockets of unknown purpose along its base. An 18m corridor splits to connect tunnels leading to the unfinished and Queen's Chambers, while another tunnel intersects the descending corridor to reach the King's Chamber.

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    The Great Pyramid of Khufu contains three chambers arranged vertically: an unfinished chamber cut into bedrock, a Queen's Chamber (a misnomer), and a King's Chamber reached via an antechamber from the Grand Gallery. The Grand Gallery features corbel vaulting and cut sockets of unknown purpose along its base. An 18m corridor splits to connect tunnels leading to the unfinished and Queen's Chambers, while another tunnel intersects the descending corridor to reach the King's Chamber.

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    Pyramid Interior

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    Mya Grazina Sabadisto
    The Great Pyramid of Khufu contains three chambers arranged vertically: an unfinished chamber cut into bedrock, a Queen's Chamber (a misnomer), and a King's Chamber reached via an antechamber from the Grand Gallery. The Grand Gallery features corbel vaulting and cut sockets of unknown purpose along its base. An 18m corridor splits to connect tunnels leading to the unfinished and Queen's Chambers, while another tunnel intersects the descending corridor to reach the King's Chamber.

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    Interior

    The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the only pyramid known to contain both ascending and descending passages. There are three known chambers inside: These are arranged centrally, on the vertical axis of the pyramid. From the entrance, an 18 meter corridor leads down and splits in two directions. One way leads to the lowest and unfinished chamber. This chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built. It is the largest of the three, but totally unfinished, only rough-cut into the rock. One tunnel leads to the Queen's Chamber, a misnomer, while the other winds to intersect with the descending corridor. The Grand Gallery itself features a corbel haloed design and several cut "sockets" spaced at regular intervals along the length of each side of its raised base with a "trench" running along its center length at floor level. What purpose these sockets served is unknown. An antechamber leads from the Grand Gallery to the King's Chamber.
    Unfinished chamber

    The "unfinished chamber" lies 27.5 meters below ground level and is rough-hewn, lacking the precision of the other chambers.

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