Article: An Investigation into the Southern Shaft of the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid

The main chamber of the Great Pyramid (the so-called ‘king’s chamber’) has two shaft inlets; one in the northern wall, the other directly opposite in the southern wall. They are the starting points of two long shafts which exit the pyramid’s exterior. While the purpose of these shafts has been disputed in scholarly literature, this paper offers the speculative hypothesis that the southern shaft had a solar target and as such, it investigates whether the light of the sun could have made it all the way down this shaft and into the burial chamber. Such an action may have been considered to be a powerful means of connecting the King to a known afterlife celestial destination.