Logo of the ScanPyramids project
Posted on 10/27/2015 11:35:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Starting November, the pyramids of Giza will be subject to a non-invasive survey in an attempt to unravel their secrets four millennia after their construction. “Several theories have been brought forward during the past century to understand the method that the ancient Egyptians used to construct the pyramids but all are still scientific hypotheses,” Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty told Ahram Online.
Eldamaty continued, saying that the ScanPyramids project is a new means to learn how the pyramids were built and understand the reason behind the pyramid-shaped design. The scans will also detect the existence of any hidden chambers, corridors, and doors inside the pyramids.
Eldamaty explains that this would be implemented through radiographic muons, (a process similar to x-ray, but much more deeply penetrating), infrared thermography, photogrammetry, scanning, and 3D reconstruction. The most innovative technologies will be used by researchers from three universities: the Faculty of Engineering of Cairo University, Université Laval of Quebec, and Nagoya University of Japan.
“Their goal is to probe Egypt’s largest pyramids, without touching them or drilling the slightest opening,” Eldamaty asserted.
Phase one of the project will scan four masterpieces of the Fourth Dynasty: the Bent and Red pyramids of King Senefru at Dahshur necropolis, fifteen kilometers south of Saqqara, as well as Kings Khufu and Khafre’s pyramids on the Giza plateau.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.ahram.org.eg ...
Logo of the ScanPyramids project
Some say the Sphinx survived Noah’s flood 13000 B.C.
The latest hubbub is that the Sphinx may be 800,000 years old. Amazing if true.
One is informed, on the basis of sound evidence, that deep within the Great Pyramid is a billiards room, a smoking lounge, and a wet bar.
...deep within the Great Pyramid is a billiards room, a smoking lounge, and a wet bar.
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In other words... A Man Cave!
Can’t have a Man Cave without some impressive Nefertitties.
Obviously HAZMAT work will be required. All that tobacco smoke in there on the walls could be the cause of cancer throughout Egypt to this day.
Now the truth can be told.
Kidding aside, I’m surprised this sort of scan work wasn’t done before now. Then again a couple years WERE a writeoff thanks to Obama. Does anyone know if that jackass they had running antiquities over there stopped it earlier?
The reason for the shape is not hard to understand. I’ve seen sun rays come down at the same angles the pyramid edges intersect. It’s an attempt, I think, to get close to the sun.
Dont trust Ukranians, ever.
http://worldtruth.tv/geological-evidence-shows-the-great-sphinx-is-800000-years-old%E2%80%8F/
I’m not sure about the science of these scans. That is, if the science has existed for a long time and, if so, why it hasn’t been done before now.
I do know that, for the longest time, all of these antiquities in Egypt were under the supervision of this Master Archaeologist whose name eludes me at the moment, but you couldn’t turn on a TV program about Egyptian ruins without seeing him lecturing. I’m sure you’ve see him on TV. In fact, I’m sure pretty much everyone on the planet has seen him on TV.
Dr. Hawass, or something like that...?
Anyway, I have no idea why this wasn’t done earlier. Did the technology exist before now?
Rotate 90 deg clockwise:
Daniel 2:20-22
20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
Yea thats the POS I was thinking of. From what I read that idiot set back Egyptology considerably with his financial demands for access. Not to TV shows (them too) but to actual scientists/archeologists around the world, Universities etc.
On the science I am not sure but I have to think GPR type tech has been sufficiently advanced for some time.
About 45-50 years ago, the now-late Luis Alvarez built a detector (cosmic rays I think it was) inside the Khafre pyramid, and based on the data collected concluded that there were no large unknown chambers in that pyramid. He’d have missed a ramp though.
video:
http://www.scanpyramids.org/
press release:
http://www.multivu.com/players/uk/7671551-scanpyramids-project-launch-egyptian/
the consortium doing it:
http://www.hip.institute/
source of links:
http://news.sys-con.com/node/3520234
The radiograhic muons thing might be new. All that other stuff - not so much. And it is just looking at the surface - so not sure what they expect to see. I’m guessing the big mysteries will be discovered in their “3D Reconstruction” - whatever that means. Although it will probably be in color and on a computer - so it must be right!
Other rays can get farther in, I think.
He evidently is permitting this on a tentative basis - if anything comes up that in the slightest contradicts prevailing theory (Hawass & Lerner), it will be quashed quickest. Especially if they determine that the pyramids were built as a complex, not used as tombs, and were rebuilt/repaired during the times of the Old Kingdom.
That was the case with optical thermoluminescence dating (which determines age by measuring electrons released when a stone joint is fractured) in Egypt done by Prof. Ioannis Liritzis in which a few samples added several hundred years to standard dating - making the test subjects far too old to fit and was quickly shut down. This technique is now banned.
As to why the technology was not used earlier - it is a simple matter of getting permission from the idiots mentioned above - a matter of intense negotiations and over many years for the simplest of things.
Some links for those that wish to pursue all things Old Kingdom - books by a real Egyptologist and science historian w/ many unique photos on line:
The Sphinx Mystery
The original Sphinx?
Despite of the admonition to "not trust Ukrainians" at Geological Evidence Shows the Great Sphinx is 800,000 Years Old, it is worth considering that the research done sounds good - based on climatology and geology - furthering West and Schoch's theory of origin.
Yes, Hawass, that’s the guy. I’m not an Egyptologisst, and have little knowledge of such matters, but it does seem that this guy has somehow pwned Egyptology and you can’t so much as turn to the subject without his face popping up.
Quietly, in the background sometimes even show is Mark Lehner, an American - he is even more rabid than Hawass.
These two milk the standard theory - which makes no sense when looked at closely - for their fame and fortune, basing much of their theory on work done in the 19th and early 20th centuries and never reexamined.
“I see a plaque deep within the pyramid. It says, ‘Do not, I repeat, do NOT bombard this pyramid with radio waves! It will cause it to turn to sand!!’”
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