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Secret Chambers Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza Would Allow Him to Resist Earthquakes

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After millennia and several major earthquakes, the building remains standing. Researchers have just discovered that some of its internal chambers actually function as huge shock absorbers.
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The Cheops pyramid is not only a miracle of ancient Egyptian architecture, it is also amazingly stable: even strong earthquakes have survived the approximately 4500-year-old building without damage. Geophysicists have now determined why this is so. According to this, the secret lies in the inner structure of the pyramid. It is built in such a way that it distributes mechanical loads particularly uniformly, [...] The post Cheops pyramid: Secret o…

After millennia and several major earthquakes, the building remains standing. Researchers have just discovered that some of its internal chambers actually function as huge shock absorbers.

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Slate.fr broke the news in France on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
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