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Scientists say they have found a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, in what would be the first such discovery in the structure since the 19th century and one likely to spark a new surge of interest in the pharaohs.
In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, an international team said the 30-meter (yard) void deep within the pyramid is situated above the structure's Grand Gallery, and has a similar cross-section.
The purpose of the space is unclear, and it's not yet known whether it was built with a function in mind or if it's merely a gap in the pyramid's architecture. Some experts say such empty spaces have been known for years.
"This is a premier," said Mehdi Tayoubi, a co-founder of the ScanPyramids project and president of the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute. "It could be composed of one or several structures... maybe it could be another Grand Gallery. It could be a chamber, it could be a lot of things."
The scientists made the discovery using cosmic-ray imaging, recording the behavior of subatomic particles called muons that penetrate the rock similar to X-rays, only much deeper. Their paper was peer-reviewed before appearing in Nature, an international, interdisciplinary journal of science, and its results confirmed by other teams of scientists.
Goa'uld control room, obviously. takyon: s04e13.
Also at CBC.
(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 03 2017, @06:59AM (3 children)
My HHS guy, @SecretaryCarson, says the Egyptians stored grain in the Pyramids. They knew "poverty is a state of mind." They were very smart cookies, and so is he!
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 03 2017, @07:01AM (1 child)
I mean my HUD guy. I really wanted him to do HHS.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 03 2017, @06:08PM
Stay in character: never acknowledge reality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:28AM
Suppose there were bits of grain in every crevice. Maybe it is even full, merely seeming empty to muon imaging due to the low density of dry grain. Maybe we open things up, the grain pours out, and a few archaeologists perish underneath the resulting pile.
I'm betting nobody would bother to apologize to Ben Carson.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by rylyeh on Friday November 03 2017, @07:04AM (12 children)
I saw the horror and unwholesome antiquity of Egypt, and the grisly alliance it has always had with the tombs and temples of the dead. I saw phantom processions of priests with the heads of bulls, falcons, cats, and ibises; phantom processions marching interminably through subterraneous labyrinths and avenues of titanic propylaea beside which a man is as a fly, and offering unnamable sacrifice to indescribable gods. Stone colossi marched in endless night and drove herds of grinning androsphinxes down to the shores of illimitable stagnant rivers of pitch. And behind it all I saw the ineffable malignity of primordial necromancy, black and amorphous, and fumbling greedily after me in the darkness to choke out the spirit that had dared to mock it by emulation.
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday November 03 2017, @07:29AM (1 child)
No grinning gynoshinxes? Man, that's even more horrific than primordial necromancy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by rylyeh on Friday November 03 2017, @08:11PM
Gotta go to White Plume Mountain [wikipedia.org] for the Gynosphinx...
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 3, Funny) by PiMuNu on Friday November 03 2017, @09:41AM (5 children)
EPIC DEATHMATCH!!! realDonaldTrump vs HP Lovecraft
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @10:23AM (2 children)
C'mon! Donald against a guy who could put words into complete sentences? Not even a challenge! Not only can the Donald not wright, he cannot right, and worse, he cannot write. All this mostly because he cannot read! Reading is Fundamental, as some famous non-white person said.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PiMuNu on Friday November 03 2017, @01:14PM (1 child)
I don't think you understand why Trump (and Bush, etc) were/are so successful.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 03 2017, @05:55PM
I don't think you understand why Trump (and Bush, etc) were/are so successful.
Correct, if daddy is rich then reading is optional.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 03 2017, @06:14PM (1 child)
EPIC DEATHMATCH!!! realDonaldTrump vs HP Lovecraft
How's that gonna work?
One's a bloated, decaying pile of meat. And the other's been dead for a while.
(Score: 1) by rylyeh on Friday November 03 2017, @08:09PM
Clearly, both would summon monsters to fight for them.
For HPL, I say a Shoggoth [wikipedia.org].
For Trump? Maybe Bannon? Roger Stone? Any ideas?
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 03 2017, @06:11PM (3 children)
Wait....are you describing yourself? [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by rylyeh on Friday November 03 2017, @07:58PM (2 children)
The quote is from Imprisoned with the Pharaos [dagonbytes.com] Originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini - there are several death defying escapes as well!
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 2, Funny) by Aegis on Friday November 03 2017, @08:26PM (1 child)
So now we have a US president, an undead philosopher and an evil city posting on SN. Talk about diversity!
(Score: 1) by rylyeh on Friday November 03 2017, @09:25PM
Just wait till the folks from the International Order of Thanateros [wikipedia.org] get here.
That's when the Pandemonium at the Pyramid gets the loudest!
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 5, Funny) by tonyPick on Friday November 03 2017, @07:45AM
"Look, I know what the numbers say, but just assume we have enough stone in the budget for now and work out the details later. Worst case we leave a great big hole in the middle, and who'll ever know?"
- Some Egyptian Project Manager, 4500BC
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @08:13AM (7 children)
I learned this in prison, from a white guy I called "Big Daddy", partly because he was big, but also because he protected me from all the other ass-rapers in prison, for the low cost of him ass-raping me on a regular basis, because white guys need to keep their DNA pure, even in a prison situation. He told me that Mormons were fucked, the victims of a total scam. Scientologists were not even going to know what hit them when it turns out that Chthulu is actually Zenu! And, most importantly, that the Jews are not really Jews! You see, if we are really all white and shit, and we follow this carpenter who was jewish, doesn't that make us kind of jewish? So that can't be right. Jesus was white, because we follow Jesus, and we are white. Obviously, at some point in history, the real Aryan White Jews (great name for a Rock Band, btw, apologies to Dave Barry) were replaced by non-white jews, otherwise Jesus would be a jew, and as his loyal followers, we would all be jews, and have to get our foreskins cut off as a sign of the covenant. But Big Daddy was totally uncut, so Jesus must have been an aryan, and not Jewish at all, even though the prophecy calling for Big Daddy to be my cell-mate was totally Biblical and proved in the lurch, by our true prison love.
And if Jesus was White, Moses was white, and if Moses was a 'aiprew and not an Egyptian, then his exodus from Egypt founded the alt-right movement in America, based as it is, on gay sex with white guys who might be part jewish, and is being, um, "serviced" by a black guy, in a movement obsessed with cuckoldry since they are all otherwise inpotent. Some things, not even Via Agra can fix. The Via Dolorosa is much more to be recommended. And for all you Catholic faggot alt-right pedophiles, we will be coming for you.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @08:38AM (4 children)
Flamebait mod? Oh dear, either a Domincan or an alt-rightie go here first.
(Score: -1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 03 2017, @09:13AM (3 children)
I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I’ve been challenged by so many people and I don’t, frankly, have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don’t win any more. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody. #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @10:21AM (1 child)
realDonald, are you saying we lose to Identity Christians on the Egyptian Pyramid industry? Or the other way around?
(Score: 1) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday November 07 2017, @09:43AM
I'm saying I'm tired of this politically correct crap,
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @03:08PM
We may not win but you sure do whine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:34AM (1 child)
DNA evidence from mummies shows that they were very similar to the people in modern Syria. That could be "white" depending on your definitions.
Meanwhile, modern Egyptians have significant amounts of sub-Saharan DNA. Again depending on your definitions, this might be enough to say that they are not white.
You might call all of those white, or you might call none of them white. Clearly however, ancient Egyptians were whiter than modern Egyptians.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @05:34PM
Steve Jobs was half Syrian.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday November 05 2017, @01:05PM
You know you haven't discovered all hidden chambers until you run into the stash of porn papyrii, duh.
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