Mystery of tunnels near Khufu's pyramid: trial passages or unfinished pyramid?

Two corridors carved into solid rock, approximately 88 m from the eastern base of the Great Pyramid at Giza, measure 23 m in length and descend 10 m deep. They were discovered by Howard Vyse and John Perring in the mid-1830s. William Flinders Petrie regarded them as "trial passages" – miniature models of the internal passages of Khufu's pyramid, tested before construction. Mark Lehner, by contrast, believes they are the remains of an unfinished pyramid, though he disagrees with earlier hypotheses about its purpose.

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