Robot To Explore Mysterious Pyramid Passage

a_timid_mouse writes "The National Geographic Society, using the same kind of robot used to search for survivors in the ruins of the World Trade Center, is trying to solve a mystery that lies deep in the bowels of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza. Up a tiny square tunnel is a stone hatch with copper handles that was discovered in 1872. No one knows the purpose of the shaft, and no one knows what lies behind the hatch. Enter the Pyramid Rover."

Comments

Re:Already tried?

[BigBir3d]

1 - about 10 years ago

2 - copper, not iron

3 - handles (loop), not spikes

4 - fibre optic camera is small enough to fit in/through the cracks, maybe reach the other side?

5 - there is another sensor for seeing 'thru' the stone that is blocking the pathway, range is 3 ft thru concrete, maybe 2 or 3 times that through stone of the pyramid structure.

6 - the stone is of the nice variety only found in the chambers of the interior of the pyramid

Unanswered questions lead to more investigation.

Re:this was tried

[austad]

The government of Egypt did not build the pyramids, they just happen to lie within an area that Egypt currently controls. The pyramids were there well before the current government.

It's the same thing for other interesting unique things of the past. I wouldn't expect any government to object to scientists or historians doing non-intrusive research at sites like Stonehenge, the Lighthouse at Alexandria, volcanoes in Hawaii, or any other place or object which has significant historical or scientific value.