“What will be behind it?”
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Using this new technique, the researchers from different universities, companies and the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, have been collecting data on the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the pyramid of Khafre and two pyramids at the site of Dahshur. However, the one in Giza was the most significant showing 6 degrees warmer or cooler than the other ground stones.
Professor Hany Helal from the Cairo University is convinced there is something hidden beneath the walls. The Ministry of Antiquities said that it will take time to know what the exact reasons behind the presence of anomalies are. It said the team’s findings would face further analysis in the coming weeks.
This image shows one of the spots on the Great Pyramid where an anomaly was detected.
Otherwise known as the Pyramid of Cheops, or the Pyramid of Khufu, the Great Pyramid of Egypt is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one remaining today. As such, it has been studied for hundreds of years. Future phases, including drone-mounted lasers and muon scans (which work kind of like an x-ray) could give the global team a better idea of whether or not a secret tomb is present. Among the methods used were 3D Reconstruction and infrared thermography. In September, the anitquities minister told reporters that researchers had found evidence that could point to the existence of two previously undiscovered rooms there, too, according to National Geographic. But despite the fact that humans have been studying the pyramids for centuries, these giant structures still have a few secrets that we haven’t uncovered yet.
Whether the thermal imaging will result in the discovery of such a tomb is unknown.
The research was conducted as a member of a multiphase endeavor known as the discoveries indicate and the #ScanPyramidsProject the conclusion of the very first period. There could be many reasons for which temperature variations are there.
The pyramid that supposedly hosts pharaoh Khufu’s remains was named the Great Pyramid because it is the largest pyramid on the planet. It’s the phases of heating and cooling that are being used to uncover what may be different building materials used, internal air currents, and even empty areas or hidden chambers.
The pyramid of Khufu is considered to be the largest ever built.
Members of the Scan Pyramids project did not claim to have found an undiscovered tomb in the Great Pyramid.
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Last week, Carson stood by his belief that Egypt’s great pyramids were built by the Biblical figure Joseph to store grain, an assertion dismissed by experts who said its accepted science that they were tombs.
