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Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid

posted by Fnord666 on Friday November 03 2017, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the anubis-was-here! dept.

Phoenix666 and Gaaark write:

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.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 03 2017, @06:59AM (3 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday November 03 2017, @06:59AM (#591567) Homepage Journal

    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!

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 03 2017, @07:01AM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday November 03 2017, @07:01AM (#591569) Homepage Journal

    I mean my HUD guy. I really wanted him to do HHS.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:28AM (#591989)

    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.