A silent giant reveals a buried mystery.

For generations, researchers treated the Great Sphinx like a monument that had already surrendered most of its secrets. Then new noninvasive scans swept beneath its paws and showed that the oldest guardian of the Giza Plateau was still holding something back. What began as routine structural imaging quickly turned into a scramble to map a cavity no one had documented in centuries. Even the Egyptian teams seemed stunned by how much the stone colossus had concealed.



