On November 3, 2017, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement, "The existence of several void spaces inside the pyramid is not a new thing. Egyptologists and scholars knew about it several years ago," adding, "the ministry sees that the ScanPyramid team should not rushed [ sic ] to publish their findings in media at that stage of their research because it requires more research and it is too early to say that there was a new discovery."