Posted on 11/06/2017 7:25:26 AM PST by BenLurkin
Zahi Hawass, who heads the ScanPyramids science committee overseeing the project, said there was no new "discovery".
He said he had met other scientists from ScanPyramids who "showed us their conclusions, and we informed them this is not a discovery," he told AFP.
"The pyramid is full of voids and that does not mean there is a secret chamber or a new discovery," he said. In a statement on Friday, the head of the government's antiquities council Mustafa Waziri also criticised the announcement.
"The project has to proceed in a scientific way that follows the steps of scientific research and its discussion before publication," he said.
The monument—139 metres high today, and 230 metres wide—was erected as a tomb for Khufu, also known as Cheops. To this day, nobody knows quite how it was built. The void, said co-author Kunihiro Morishima from Nagoya University in Japan, "was not known by anyone until now, from when the pyramid was built 4,500 years ago".
"The big void is completely closed," he added, which means anything inside it would not have been "touched by anyone after the pyramid (was) built".
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It’s where the grain is.
Built with slave labor. I’m offended.
Empty void criticizes empty void....................
Let’s send Geraldo to check it out!..................
He starts on my fantasy archaeology team.
LOL, forgot about that.
The portal to “Otherworld”.
... and then leave him there.
Egyptians are our friends. Let’s not anger them...................
The only way to find out what is in it or not in it is to drill a very long hole and place a small camera in the hole. It’s not clear if they would get permission to do that.
Nothing to see here just move along...
noun: void; plural noun: voids
1.
a completely empty space.
“the black void of space”
synonyms: vacuum, emptiness, nothingness, nullity, blankness, vacuity; empty space, blank space, space, gap, cavity, chasm, abyss, gulf, pit, black hole
“the void of space”
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These aren’t the voids you’re looking for.
Maybe Donald could make them a deal.
You know, a deal “deal”.
If you’re an egyptologist and zahi doesn’t like you, basically you’re finished, right there.
I heard this guy is accorded a ludicrous level of power.
egyptology is more dictatorial than North Korea.
If zahi says the pyramids were built out of cheese, you had better be nodding your head.
Oym not empty!
“Built with slave labor. I’m offended.”
They should topple the pyramid.
Seems to me some new void in that pyramid gets trotted out as a big new discovery every 15 or 20 years or so. They always prove to be nothing, pardon the pun.
Excellent
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