CAIRO -- Scientists have found a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, 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 void deep within the pyramid is situated above the structure's Grand Gallery, and has a similar cross-section. The purpose of the chamber is unclear, and it's not yet known whether it was built with a function in mind.
Experts say that builders often incorporated cavities in the pyramids to relieve stress from the overlying stone and avoid collapse, BBC News reports.
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.
Probably where Joseph stored the grain.
If people want to see old, dusty unused chambers that don't seem to have a purpose check out pretty much any home gym.
I see it. If a god were to place his lips on the shaft ...After staring at the cutaway I'm thinking the great Pyramid is just a hookah for the gods.
They'd have to dig through centuries of clothes piled on them first...
Hope they find a dinosaur skeleton within.
Of course, there are those that would suppress such a discovery. For shame.
Wishful thinking, but not implausible.lol wut
I knew they were using ground-penetrating radar to look for buried pyramids and chambers in Egypt, but I didn't know cosmic-ray imaging was being deployed.
Hope they find a dinosaur skeleton within.
Of course, there are those that would suppress such a discovery. For shame.
does it lead to any credence to any 'how the pyramids was made'?
The hieroglyphic letters inscribed in the logbook were written more than 4,500 years ago by a middle-ranking inspector named Merer who detailed over the course of several months the construction operations for the Great Pyramid, which was nearing completion, and the work at the limestone quarries at Tura on the opposite bank of the Nile River. Merer’s logbook, written in a two-column daily timetable, reports on the daily lives of the construction workers and notes that the limestone blocks exhumed at Tura, which were used to cover the pyramid’s exterior, were transported by boat along the Nile River and a system of canals to the construction site, a journey that took between two and three days.
Prepare to have your mind blown:
http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...earth-when-the-great-pyramids-were-built.html
We usually think of woolly mammoths as purely Ice Age creatures. But while most did indeed die out 10,000 years ago, one tiny population endured on isolated Wrangel Island until 1650 BCE. So why did they finally go extinct? Wrangel Island is an uninhabited scrap of land off the northern coast of far eastern Siberia.