Watched Josh Gates on the pyramids. They used ground penetrating radar and found nothing below the pyramid. Josh and an archaeologist cut out a stone from a quarry used by the pyramid builders and moved it up a sand ramp very quickly. They didn’t use rollers which would sink into sand but boards on edge lubricated with water. Really interesting show. The Egyptian department of antiquities granted them a lot of latitude. It was fascinating. There do appear to be unexcavated voids in the pyramid structure located with GPR .
It’s a rift area why wouldn’t there be voids?
There do appear to be unexcavated voids in the pyramid structure located with GPR .
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Not GPR, but Muon detectors which found the 2 voids. One small by the original entrance and the other large above and behind the Kings Chamber.
The large one may have already been looted by Zahi Hawass using the tunnel complex from the near by village - the one that is slowly being torn down, except for the Russian compound.
One of the tunnels leads in the direction of the north west corner of the Great Pyramid. Attempts by locals to explore it were halted by Hawass. Another part of the same complex caved in on the locals - all calls for help to the authorities [ Hawass is the man in charge of the Giza plateau ] were ignored and they died.
Did Hawass loot the chamber already? He was asked, but did not reply, just a grin. He and Lehner are the 2 men in charge of guarding & preserving the image of Egypt, as propounded by Herodotus in 500 BC, as little changed as possible. All mentions of anomalies and contradictory facts are ignored [ sealed up behind locked gates, disappeared, left to nature to destroy ] and often cause Hawass to become angry and enraged.
When watching a dig on some TV or YT show, watch were the spoils are dumped - if possible - as that is where a future dig/discovery will happen. Workmen in Egypt and now Turkey do this because the get paid once to remove it, and then again, paid the remove the same material on the new dig.
One recent tunnel/cave complex relatively recently uncovered was a garbage dumping site for trash collected around a tourist attraction. The uncovering was done in secret, but photos taken from a distance showed many entrances into the cliff side. When the secret dig was finished most entrances were sealed and some padlocked. The padlocked ones are for showing to wealthy tourists, not the public. There where no findings or further information released to the public on what was found.