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Great Pyramid of Giza Robots are being used to explore secret doors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. Flickr/lyng883 Egyptologists are hoping some 21st-century tech will help them unlock secrets from 4,500 years ago. They're using a robot to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza. The robot will traverse two unexplored shafts leading from the Queen's Chamber in the pyramid. Nobody knows where the shafts, which were discovered in 1872, lead. Known as the Djedi project, after the magician whom the Egyptian king Khufu consulted when planning his pyramid, the robot will be able to drill through a secret door in the pyramid's innards to see what lies beyond. A robotics team from Leeds University in the UK is working with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities to design the tomb bot, which is a follow-up to an earlier robotic mission that found the secret door in the first place. The Pyramid of Khufu, after the king who built it around 2,560 BC, is the last remaining wonder of the ancient world. It involves