Monday, November 16, 2015

An undiscovered tomb in the Great Pyramid?

TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Lost Pharaoh? Great Pyramid May Hide Undiscovered Tomb (Owen Jarus, LiveScience).
Speculation swirls anew that within Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu there lies a hidden tomb, possibly holding the pharaoh himself, sealed there for thousands of years.

The discovery of so-called thermal anomalies by a team scanning the pyramid suggests an as-yet-unidentified open space that could be evidence of a tomb.

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As with the recent similar story about possible hidden chambers in the tomb of Tutankhamun, I am not qualified to evaluate the use of this technology in the Great Pyramid. Zahi Hawass seems to think there is something to the idea of it containing a hidden tomb. I pass the story on as an example of the use of early and primitive nonintrusive and nondestructive scanning technologies which, as they improve, are are going to become increasingly important to archaeology.