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From 2005:
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Egypt is preparing to use the latest technology to solve a 4,500-year-old riddle.
A robot is to be sent up two narrow shafts in the Great Pyramid in Giza to discover whether a secret burial chamber contains the real tomb of the pharoah Cheops, also known as Khufu.
The chief Egyptian archeologist, Zahi Hawass, is to inspect the robot designed by Singapore scientists later this week.
The device is to drill through the second door and a stone slab blocking the second shaft in the pyramid which is the largest in the world and stands at the gateway to Cairo.
By my research, all they're going to find behind the second plugstone is core masonry. It's the only idea that makes Egyptological sense, really. All this hoopla about a secret burial chamber is utter sensationalistic nonsense.
The whole reason for the plugstones was to keep more profane objects from falling into the bottom of the shafts (after the small pounder stone was dropped in, possibly accidentally). Once those shafts to the 2nd Chamber (Queen's Chamber) were deemed unnecessary, the plugstones were left in place and the construction of the pyramid was carried on above and beyond them.
Best of luck to the new survey team. I hope they don't make too much hype out of this because it will, in all likelihood, just end up being another "Al Capone's Vault" scenario.
I apologize for posting this as a new item of interest, but it's floating around again and really needs to be addressed one way or the other.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2007 10:10AM by Anthony.
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