In 1928, Morton Edgar probed the Queen's Chamber air channels in the Great Pyramid with specially made rods. His measurements and theories about these channels were not incorporated into mainstream Egyptological literature and remained obscure for decades.
Morton Edgar's channel measurements ignored for 60 years
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- Morton Edgar measured southern channel at 208 ft (63.4m) in 1928
- He probed northern channel 175 ft deep before rods broke
- Edgar reported findings to chief Egyptologist George Reisner at Giza in 1936
- Reisner had explosive reaction and dismissed Edgar's findings
- Edgar's discovery was never documented by Egyptology for over 60 years
- Length was rediscovered by Rudolph Gantenbrink in 1993
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