Secret of how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built may finally have been solved

The construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramid has been long debated (Picture: Getty)

For decades, experts have struggled to explain how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built — but now a new study claims to have found an answer.

The construction would have required ancient workers to lift and place millions of huge stone (some weighing up to 15 tons) without using modern machinery, sparking countless theories.

However, a new study published in Nature suggests that a multi-channel system of ramps, built directly into the edges of the pyramid itself, could be the solution to this architectural marvel.

The paper proposes that the structure in Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu, could have been ...