The existence of a secret chamber beneath the north face of the Great Pyramid has been confirmed (Image: ScanPyramids)
Posted on 03/02/2023 12:41:14 PM PST by Red Badger
Thanks to cosmic rays, secrets of the last remaining Wonder of the Ancient World are being revealed.
The Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest of Egypt's famous landmarks, has stood tall for around 4,500 years. But the 2 million blocks that make up the tomb and fortress have not been impenetrable. Looters robbed the structure of its ancient treasures thousands of years ago and scientists have probed its interiors either by studying its corridors or with more advanced measuring techniques like thermal scanners.
The structure still holds many secrets, but since 2015 an international team of scientists, the ScanPyramids team, has been using subatomic particles to probe the unknowns of the monument. In 2017, they revealed a huge void -- creatively dubbed the Big Void -- situated above the pyramid's gallery, though the purpose of this void remains unknown.
On Thursday, in a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the team characterizes the structure of this corridor by taking advantage of the cosmic rays that constantly smash into the Earth.
Cosmic ray muons, a subatomic particle considered one of the most basic building blocks of the universe, pass through Earth's atmosphere and sometimes collide with solid matter on the ground. A given object's density and thickness determine how the muon is absorbed by the object -- and that's measurable.
Two teams installed seven detectors inside two corridors of the pyramid over a period of three years, from 2016 to 2019, that were able to capture these muons. The direction in which these muons smash into the detector is useful to determine what matter they passed through before they were detected. This is how the team was able to first discover the North Face Corridor and then characterize its features.
Their measurements show that the North Face Corridor sits about 2.6 feet behind the North Face Chevron, an interesting structure just above the modern-day public entrance to the pyramid with a currently unknown role. The corridor itself is likely 27 feet in length and pipe-shaped and runs horizontal to the ground. It also appears to have a larger cross-section than other corridors within the Great Pyramid and, at least from this measurement, it appears unlikely to connect to the Big Void previously detected by the ScanPyramids team.
It's a particularly intriguing find because the North Face Chevron was once hidden behind the outer layer of casing stones on the pyramid. Why hide these chevrons? What were they for? Why is there a corridor behind them?
It seems every time scientists probe the Great Pyramid's hidden pathways and seemingly empty spaces, they find more questions.
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The existence of a secret chamber beneath the north face of the Great Pyramid has been confirmed (Image: ScanPyramids)
I’ve said forever...that the inside is a honeycomb. They have to do a better job of looking at the outside...cuz the keying is pretty noticeable.
IIRC didn’t HP Lovecraft ghost-write a story by Harry Houdini on the subject?
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"The tomb is being sealed, Your Majesty."
Anyone remember that?
I was speaking with a guy yesterday who just got back from Egypt and visiting the pyramids - he kept saying over and over “those things had to have been built by aliens” - he was in total awe of what he saw.
Unused break room.
It is amazing what one can accomplish with an endless supply of disposable slaves.
But also... It was an employment program according to some studies.
Looters robbed the structure of its ancient treasures thousands of years ago
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No one looted it, as it remained sealed until around 800AD when Arabs muslims tunneled into it to loot it, but found nothing.
Nothing.
It was empty.
Was Geraldo there?
Yeah, that was a pretty good movie.
English actor Jack Hawkins played the architect of the tomb. Stones slid into place when vials filled with sand were broken by the priests, sealing themselves in the tomb with the greedy woman.
Well it depends on what sources you read. There are some fascinating stories from early Arab writers who mentioned strange things like lights that never extinguished. Fun to read.
What is known for certain in the historical record is a little more strange than is popularly known. Nobody was precisely sure where the actual entrance was.
That’s why they blew a hole in the side. That’s still the entrance used by visitors today.
The limestone casing stones were cut, polished, and installed with “optical” levels of precision, as scientists have described other granite features of ancient Egypt.
The original “door” to the pyramid swung open, and up, from the inside. When it was closed, it was invisible or impossible to detect from the outside. That’s amazing when you stop and think about it. Why did they do that?
It is amazing what one can accomplish with an endless supply of disposable slaves.
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No one knows (beyond conjecture and assumptions) who, how, or why the Giza monuments were built. All of Egyptian Old Kingdom history is in turmoil, as all of the dating is way off from when they were supposedly built by 500 years or more - according to optical thermolucient dating of supposed youngest Pyramid of Menkaure [the small one].
Further, the monuments were planned and build as one grand geometric structure, not as separate monuments, and none were used as tombs. In fact, the tombs of the supposed builder pharaohs have never been found.
There is every likely hood that the First Dynasty kings found them and did not build them. Rather they took them as their own as happened repeatedly thorough out Egyptian history, repurposing them to suit their needs - as the later muslims stripped the monuments of their casing stones to make buildings in Cairo.
One thing is known about the time of the Pharaohs - the workmen at Giza where NOT slaves and where well cared for, fed, housed and had medical attention. It was a well paying job, with prestige. They were likely building all the other temples and mastabas found across the plateau.
There are some fascinating stories from early Arab writers who mentioned strange things like lights that never extinguished
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You have any linkable sources or books? Sounds interesting.
However, the version I related is the generally acceptable historical one.
“Lights that never went out” could have something to do with Chris Dunn’s analysis that they were used to generate some sort of electrical power, which was ended when some one used the wrong ingredients and caused an explosion in the ‘Kings’ Chamber’.
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