Posted on 09/16/2002 7:43:07 PM PDT by vannrox
The coffin contained a 4,500-year-old skeleton, but little else. “These are the fingerprints of the workmen who built the pyramids,” Hawass said during the television program.
BS. Hawass is about 5000+ yrs late.
Marilyn Chambers
That must be the chamber he thought they found.
Art Bell, who claims to have met Hawass, posted the following two pictures on his own web site last night. He questions the authenticity of the door probed.
Image shown on tv in 1993
Image of door in 2002
Unless a section broke off from the 2nd metal "handle", he makes a good point.
If someone wants to pay for it, I have a lot of vacation hours stored up. I could go over there and send up your robot (your robot, you pay for it).
Get back to me here at FR.
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Egypt Team Finds New Mystery Door in Pyramid
Mon Sep 23, 8:58 AM ET
CAIRO (Reuters) - A mysterious door has been found in a previously unexplored shaft inside Egypt's biggest pyramid, only days after a similar stone slab was found in another shaft, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Monday.
Last week, in front of television cameras, a specially designed robot climbed about 215 feet up one of two narrow passages stretching from a chamber inside the pyramid of Cheops to peer through a hole drilled into a stone door, only to find another door behind it. Away from the cameras, the robot was sent up the second shaft, only partially examined in the past. It found another door, which had copper handles like the one in the first shaft and was at the same distance of 65 meters, Hawass said. "I think we'll find another door behind it," Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Antiquities Council, told reporters. Both shafts emanate from a room below the pyramid's main chamber -- the burial crypt of the Pharaoh Cheops, who presided over the world's most advanced civilization 4,500 years ago. His mummy has never been found, adding to the mystery of the great pyramid -- one of the seven wonders of the ancient world whose construction secrets have defied experts to this day. The pyramid, which sits on the Giza plateau overlooking Cairo, has not yielded treasures like those found in other tombs. Theories on what could lie behind the strange doors include statues, workers' tools or ancient scrolls. Hawass told the news conference a team of Egyptologists would need time to study the new finds before proceeding. "Everything now needs a careful look. We will ask the National Geographic ( news - web sites) Society to cooperate to reveal more mysteries," Hawass said. The U.S. group helped sponsor the expedition shown live on television last week. Hawass said the passage had bends and turns in an apparent attempt by builders to avoid the main chamber. This could indicate the unexplained passageways were built after the pyramids were completed and were not part of the original design. Hawass speculated the passages could be connected to an attempt by Cheops to promote himself as Egypt's sun god. Belief at the time said kings became the god in death. Hawass believes the shafts, which have been chiseled out of the pyramid's stone structure, are "passages the king will face before he travels to the afterlife." Recent excavations at Dakhla oasis in Egypt's Western Desert have shown Cheops may have reigned longer than the previously thought 23 years. Two larger passages also emanate from Cheop's burial chamber, but unlike the shafts recently explored, they open out on to the surface of the huge 480 feet edifice.
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Sorry. I don't for a minute believe that the probe was sent up there on live tv without someone having already checked the chamber. They put this off until the very last minute which, IMHO, indicates that they already knew another door was behind the first one.
As for the pictures from Art Bell's web site, these are two pictures of one door - the first picture was taken in 1993; the second was taken the night of the "live" tv coverage. He is the one who points out the discrepancy in the "handle". Vannrox assumed that these pictures were taken of two separate doors. According to Hawass, the probe was sent through the "1993" door. Now, it seems they have discovered yet another door.
This reminds me of that magazine game - "What's wrong with this picture?". Frankly, I don't believe they will find tools or mummies behind any of these doors. Their purpose is lost in antiquity and drilling a hole through them may in fact disrupt their intended function.
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