Archeologists have searched for the passage to Egypt’s Great Pyramid for years with no luck. This week, an Egyptian citizen was digging in his backyard, which is illegal, and found a tunnel leading to the center of the Pyramid of Khufu. That pyramid, commonly referred to as the Great Pyramid, is the largest of the three Giza Pyramids.

Archeologists have been searching for decades in an attempted to find the buried passage to the pyramid. The causeway has been known to exist because it was written about in Histories, written by the Greek Herodotus. He claim to have visited the pyramid and causeway in the fifth century B.C. Until now, only a small part of the passage had been discovered.

Then comes a man, identified as “Nagy” on this Arabic news site, who dug down 33 feet beneath his house before running into the passage made of stone blocks. He reported his find to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities and they dispatched archeologists to take a look at what he found. A committee later confirmed that it must be the legendary causeway mentioned in the book.

This is a significant find for Egypt because the causeway is known to connect the Great Pyramid to a buried temple near the Nile River. Until now, archeologists haven’t had any luck finding the temple because they were not positive of which direction to look. This discovery has led archeologists to believe that the temple is buried somewhere underneath the village of Nazlet el-Samman.