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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: -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.