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Sub-atomic Particles Used To Map Pyramid

Posted by timothy on from the grids-of-matrices-of-lattices dept.

firegate writes "Yahoo News is reporting on a pyramid-mapping project focusing on an ancient Aztec site in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Scientists are attempting to map an ancient pyramid by detecting muons - sub-atomic particles which are left as remnants of ancient cosmic rays. A similar method was used to scan Egypt's Khephren Pyramid in the 1960's."

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  1. 1960s!? by bhima · · Score: 5, Interesting
    So, Now I am wondering why they didn't just go around to all the various temples and man-made wonders and give them the old "muon once over". Once they built the device they could have subsequently rented it to all of those busy archeologists and museum curators and had a look at everything.

    Come to think of it, it might have been useful in my old house...

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