Infrared Scans Show Possible Hidden Chamber in King Tut’s Tomb

National Geographic ^ | 6 Nov 2015 | Mark Strauss

[Bob434]

Maybe that’s where Joseph stored the corn during the famine

[[“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,” Ben Carson said]]

[catnipman]

Cool! I bet that’s where Joseph stored the grain!

[refreshed]

Maybe that is where the grain is stored. I know...that has already been said a dozen times. But I thought of it before it was said a dozen times!

[amorphous]

I think it probably took more than 7 years to build the pyramids. :-)

[dfwgator]

He’s my favorite honky.

[PLMerite]

IR scan? Grow room:

[catnipman]

“Maybe that is where the grain is stored. I know...that has already been said a dozen times. But I thought of it before it was said a dozen times!”

Sigh. You’re correct of course. I just couldn’t help myself.

[caveat emptor]

(What book or movie is the picture of the pyramids lifting off from? (That grammar looks wrong, but I don’t feel like editing it.)

Churchill's take:

Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply: “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

[Bob434]

Haven’t you heard? Aliens helped and it only took a couple of hours for each one

[bgill]

Beat me and a lot of us to it.

[Salamander]

Staging room for their comeback tour.

[SunkenCiv]

A bit of an update, someone wake me when the Egyptians finally get around to opening the SOB. Good one for the weekly Digest ping. Thanks MtnClimber.

• Ben Carson: Archaeologists Are Wrong, The Pyramids Were Built To Store Grain
• Ben Carson's unusual theory about pyramids ("It's still my belief, yes.")
• Egypt pyramids for grain not pharoahs: presidential hopeful Carson
• Trump pokes fun at Carson's pyramid theory
• Ben Carson: Egyptians used the pyramids to store grain, not bury the pharaohs
• Aliens, Pyramids, and Granaries? What on Earth Was Ben Carson Thinking?
• Archaeologists To Ben Carson: Ancient Egyptians Wrote Down Why The Pyramids Were Built
• Archaeologists To Ben Carson: Ancient Egyptians Wrote Down Why The Pyramids Were Built
• Carson on the defensive over claims of past violence, pyramids
• Rand Paul Mocks Carson's Pyramids Theory: I Think It Was Aliens!

[SunkenCiv]

• Has Queen Nefertiti been found behind King Tut's tomb?
• Egypt approves Radar for Nefertiti Tomb Quest
• INTERVIEW: Egypt's antiquities minister speaks on the search for Nefertiti in Tutankhamun's tomb
• Where Is the Tomb of Queen Nefertiti?

and from deeper in the FRchives:

• Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)
• BOOK FEATURE: The man who really found Tutankhamen (British Corporal Spy)
• US dig uncovers King Tut's neighbours
• Today in history: Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen (11/04/1922)
• Half of European men share King Tut's DNA
• The REAL face of King Tut: Pharaoh had girlish hips, a club foot and buck teeth according to

[BlueDragon]

Obviously the secret cave where they stashed the loot.

[Bigg Red]

They’d better open it soon before the moslems blow it up.

[SunkenCiv]

They'd be more likely to loot it -- but my quasi-educated guess is that there's going to be very little in those chambers, and definitely no Nefertiti. Naturally, I'd gladly be wrong about this. Tut died suddenly, and was not on the throne long; his burial was rushed, and there's even a peculiar scene on the wall of the tomb showing his successor, Ai, doing the burial rites. Nefertiti would not in any case have been buried in the V of the Kings.

Reeves has something of an obsession about finding Nefertiti. When he did his ground-penetrating radar survey in the KV, ten or so years ago (not long before he was suspended from being able to work in Egypt, over some bogus allegations of antiquities smuggling), and located what is now known as KV-63 (and another 'hit' dubbed KV-64), he speculated that the pit tomb could be Nefertiti's.

[Rebelbase]

What’s the old joke? An intellectual calls out someone who finished a sentence, ‘Where’s the dog at?’

“Sir, we from Harvard never end a sentence with a preposition”.

‘Excuse me sir. I’ll rephrase. Where’s the dog at, A-hole!’

[Ken H]

Who’s buried in King Tut’s tomb?

[Pelham]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTPH5y1-ZI

[SteveH]

thanks