Doctor Hawass found the shaft leading to the third level. When Doctor Hawass found the third level, it was submerged. To lower the sarcophagus into the chamber, the shaft was filled with sand and the sarcophagus was placed on top. The sand was removed via side-shafts cut for the purpose. As the level of the sand dropped, the sarcophagus was lowered down the shaft.
Archaeologists agree that a network of tunnels lies below the Giza plateau.
Doctor Hawass stood in the entrance to what he said was an unexcavated tunnel. This section highlights some discrepancies between the discovery of this location as reported in the television programme and other historical reports. At Giza excerpt reproduced on page 1 and the London Daily Telegraph article of the 4th March 1935 reproduced on page 3 that the location was known about many years ago. Two of the sidechambers contained red granite sarcophagi, Again, it is clear from the reports cited above that Doctor Selim Hassan was fully aware of the layout of the second chamber with its sidechambers and also of the shaft to the third level, although he believed the two monolithic sarcophagi to be of basalt rather than granite. From points 3 and 4, we are told that this is the chamber talked about by Herodotus, and furthermore that it is the 'Tomb of Osiris'.