Post by Heimdallr on Nov 2, 2017 21:21:08 GMT
Cosmic rays have revealed a hidden void inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, scientists said Thursday.
They don’t know what’s in it or what it was built for, but it does not look like a secret burial chamber. It’s shaped more like a 30-yard-long gallery or corridor, the international team of researchers reported in the journal Nature.
“We open the question to Egyptologists, architects and archaeologists: what could it be?” Hany Helal of Cairo University told reporters on a telephone briefing.
“We don’t know for the moment if it’s horizontal or inclined, if it is made from one structure or several successive structures,” Mehdi Tayoubi, president of France’s Heritage Innovation Presentation (HIP) Institute, added.
“What we do know is that this void is there, that it is impressive, that it was not expected by any kind of theory.”
Rumors have abounded for centuries about hidden rooms in the pyramids at Giza. But it’s hard to get through the tons of stone blocks used to make the 455-foot-high great pyramid of Khufu (or Cheops.) Radar can’t do it well.
“A lot of people tried to dig some tunnels looking for chambers,” Tayoubi said. Tourists get in through the “robbers’ tunnel,” dug out centuries ago.
Visitors looking for mummies or treasure have been disappointed. The 4,500-year-old tomb was robbed millennia ago.
Yet archaeologists have long believed there is more to the inside than the three chambers, corridors and air shafts that have been discovered... More ... (NBC News - 2 Nov 2017)
They don’t know what’s in it or what it was built for, but it does not look like a secret burial chamber. It’s shaped more like a 30-yard-long gallery or corridor, the international team of researchers reported in the journal Nature.
“We open the question to Egyptologists, architects and archaeologists: what could it be?” Hany Helal of Cairo University told reporters on a telephone briefing.
“We don’t know for the moment if it’s horizontal or inclined, if it is made from one structure or several successive structures,” Mehdi Tayoubi, president of France’s Heritage Innovation Presentation (HIP) Institute, added.
“What we do know is that this void is there, that it is impressive, that it was not expected by any kind of theory.”
Rumors have abounded for centuries about hidden rooms in the pyramids at Giza. But it’s hard to get through the tons of stone blocks used to make the 455-foot-high great pyramid of Khufu (or Cheops.) Radar can’t do it well.
“A lot of people tried to dig some tunnels looking for chambers,” Tayoubi said. Tourists get in through the “robbers’ tunnel,” dug out centuries ago.
Visitors looking for mummies or treasure have been disappointed. The 4,500-year-old tomb was robbed millennia ago.
Yet archaeologists have long believed there is more to the inside than the three chambers, corridors and air shafts that have been discovered... More ... (NBC News - 2 Nov 2017)
RELATED: Scans of King Tut’s Tomb Reveal Hidden Rooms, Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry Says (NBC News - 17 Mar 2016)
BELOW: 3D artistic view made by the ScanPyramids mission shows a hidden internal structure in Khufus Pyramid, the largest pyramid in Giza.
