Egyptian Pyramid Mysteries to Be Explored Live

An anonymous reader noted that "National Geographics will probe the inside of a blocked shaft in the Great Pyramid of Giza, and will also open the oldest intact sarcophagus found in moder times." Since this is the shaft where all the secret alien technology has been stored for the last few thousand years, and everyone knows that these "Sarcophagus" things are what the Gou'ald use to regenerate, I think this whole thing will be interesting as hell. Awh who am I kidding- I'm just a junkie on watching those specials where they explore pyramids.

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not 1872! 1993

[Mazzaroth]

The article sais that a stone hatch with copper handle were discovered in 1872. Wrong!.

In 1992-3, a team using a small robot with a video camera revealed a strange stone slab, which blocks the 40-degree, 200-foot southern lower shaft. This stone has 2 copper fittings. Rudolf Gantenbrink, the head of the research project narrates: The face of the inspector sitting next to me at the monitor has become chalk white. He draws my attention to two round, white marks on the copper fittings. "These are seals, these are seals!" he exclaims, visibly shaken.. Read this totally fascinating story here. The entire UPUAUT project scientific report page is available here too.

Why so long?

[uq1]

This shaft has been known for quite some time. Why has it taken so long to finally explore what many believe may be a significant find?

The Hall of Records and wood in the Pyramid

[dido]

Of course Hawass and his ilk are disdainful of this theory, but in the Sphinx, there is reportedly a hidden "hall of records" that is supposed to be under one of the shoulders of the Sphinx. According to Edgar Cayce, it was supposed to crumble away around the year 2000 and humankind's lost knowledge would be revealed. Naturally, Hawass and his ilk conducted extensive repairs of the Sphinx a year or two before Cayce's prophecy was supposed to come true, although there have been ground penetrating radar surveys that showed that there is indeed something there. Oddly enough, Mark Lehner was once upon a time associated with Cayce's estate and was a member of one of these teams led by SRI International that discovered this tantalizing evidence. What brought about his volte face so he's now 100% with the orthodox Egyptological establishment is unknown.

But they aren't going to the Sphinx, right? They're shooting for that strange sealed door at the end of one of the shafts inside the Queen's Chamber. After Rudolf Gantenbrink discovered this mysterious door in 1993, which also had a wood fragment in front of it which Gantenbrink's robot couldn't pick up (and settle once and for all the question of when the Pyramid had been built), he was prevented from sending yet another improved robot down the shaft. Political pissing contest at the Antiquities Bureau sounded like. If they do manage to get the wood fragment, hopefully there'll be no cover up on the radiocarbon dating results. There has already been one (on the mortar used in some parts of the Pyramid, conducted in 1986) that gives a date for the building of the Pyramid about a thousand or so years before the 2500 BC date traditionally accepted by Egyptologists. Gee, so the Pyramid was supposedly built ca. 3800 to 2800 BC. In the Predynastic Period! Of course these results were universally ignored by Egyptologists as it would greatly upset the neat chronology they have for the building of the Giza monuments.

This is what I get from reading too much Graham Hancock!

Like a cheesy horror movie.

[Nutcase]

"Hey guys, look at that 4000 year old gigantic stone structure, which has what we believe to be a large room at the end of a long, bending, unaccessible shaft thats only 20cm by 20cm, and blocked by a large, tightly wedged limestone rock with brass handles in it.

Even though it's painfully clear that people arent supposed to be opening up this heavily guarded chamber in the 4000 year old structure, and there is no real value for us in doing so, other than to satisfy our curiosity, lets send a small robot down there to pull the block out so we can send a camera in."

I mean, sure, it /SOUNDS/ exactly like the beginning of an extremely cheesy horror movie.. but it's actually important science. At least until they open it and unleash the apocalypse. ;)

Re:If someone's planning on making a DivX... OT

[jdcook]

"man, if I had cable, I'd LOVE to give you a divx of it. hell, I'd even mail you a copy of the cd. Why? Because it's frickin fair use! If you can't watch a show, it is within your FAIR USE to have someone to record it at a later time. My parents would always do that for me when I'd miss saturday moring cartoons to go to my sanchin ryu classes. that was fair use... that's the DEFINITION of fair use.

Fair use isn't defined. It is a doctrine that exempts certain uses from copyright infringement. Having somebody make a recording of a broadcast and send it to Japan may or may not be fair use. You could look it up.

OTOH, the original request post being "+5 Flamebait" just kills me. I say send that sucker.

Re:this was tried

[CaptainCarrot]

You're confusing your pseudoscientific theories. The erosion patterns aren't on the pyramids, which don't exhibit any to speak of that you wouldn't expect to find on a 5,000 year old monument in the desert that's been repeatedly vandalized over the millennia, but on the Sphinx. I'm not enough of a geologist to offer a genuine opinion either way, but it seems that most geologists don't agree the weathering on the Sphinx was caused by water. Of course, most of them haven't examined it firsthand either.

Which may be neither here nor there anyway; the Sphinx was carved out of, and in part built on top of, a natural rock outcropping which is itself certainly older than human civilization. We shouldn't be too surprised to see weathering on it inconsitent with the time when it became the Sphinx instead of "that rock over there."