More pictures:
http://gate.ahram.org.eg/UI/Front/Inner.aspx?NewsContentID=579717
We should wait to see where this passage actually goes, it may be Old Kingdom in date, or it may not. It may not lead anywhere (that’s my guess) or it may be a New Kingdom date construction on the plateau. There was a revival of interest in the Giza monuments during the New Kingdom.
Looks like a Sealy Perfect Sleeper mattress from antiquity in the foto.
Those pictures show his village to be what looks about a kilometer or two from the pyramid. Are we to believe that no one from the antiquities bureau had ever thought to dig a couple holes around that entire area before?
Thanks for that info and that perspective.