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> UNLESS....those who are interested in such
> measurement would ban together and raise funds.
> Once done they could find a willing
> University/organization with good connections with
> the Ministry in Egypt. Through this patron you
> could hire a team of high tech surveyors to do the
> work.
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> Enough funding - if obtained, found, requested or
> provided - would see to getting the needed
> permissions and funding the work and support of
> such a team.
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> I mean if you show up with the backing of a proper
> academic, governmental or business partner and
> have the money. I do not see anyone in Egypt
> refusing to allow non-destructive measurements.
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> Why not act instead of wait?
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> Hi Hans,

I admire your optimism, but in the real world, gaining permissions etc to undertake such a task is not so simple, and l certainly dont have the finance for such an undertaking.This is the responsibility of Egyptology, it is after all a discipline set up to study ancient Egypt. In the case of the Bent pyramid, we have not moved on much from when Fakhry stated,'that l can never pretend that it has been thoroughly explored'.It is the duty of Egyptology to thoroughly explore structures under its control; its not just a case of having an accurate survey of the structure, its the myriad holes and depressions etc we see inside the chambers, they all need to be recorded, how else are we to make sense of this structure if we do not thoroughly explore it. I am an amateur who has no chance of getting access to the Bent; even scholars such as Massimiliano Nuzzolo are denied access.

You say'why not act instead of wait' well l do try and act but with no success, for example in my Meidum guide, l suggest the features found in the vertical shaft, can be explained by the use of a vertical portcullis to seal the chamber. In connection with this l mentioned the coffin fragments found by Petrie and if they can be found and dated, they might indicate a burial had taken place inside the structure. The beams in the shaft have been dated as part of the pyramid dating project so it would be beneficial to date the coffin fragments if they could be found.Well after further research l found the coffin fragments in the Petrie Museum, which is part of UCL, which has dating facilities.l have contacted the museum and offered to fund the dating of these fragments, but without success, though they did say that they found my research very interesting.

In effect we have structures such as the Bent, that still await thorough exploration, that can only be performed by Egyptology, they hold the keys and if they are not interested in exploring it, who else can?
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