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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, 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/@ProfSteveKeen 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."