Secret Chamber In The Great Pyramid?

ferkelparade writes "The Guardian reports that two French amateur archaeologists believe they have located a secret chamber in the Cheops pyramid using microgravimetry and radar. The team believes that this might be the pharaoh's burial chamber - as the chamber seems to be unopened, it might still house the complete burial treasure. More coverage from abc."

Comments

How did they measure in the first place?

[macz]

If, as the story says, they are being denied access to the site on the grounds that they are not professional Egyptologists, how did they find out all of the information they base their theory on?
Did they use some Star Trek Sensor array from high above the surface of the earth?

Re:Archaeologist... Grave robber....

[RsG]

"We know as much as we're going to"? That, my friend is a logical fallacy. With any sort of scientific investigation, there is no convienient last page to tell you that you've reached the end. Now, granted, we certainly are looking at diminishing returns; I doubt that there are revolutionary breakthroughs in our understanding of ancient Eqypt waiting behind that door. The _important_ discoveries have _probably_ already been made. But we don't know for sure.

Now I will grant that there is a fine line between grave robbery and exploration. But ask yourself: do you object to grave robbery because it's vandalism and theft, do you object becasue it's disrespectful of the dead, or do you object on religious grounds? If it's the first reason, then really any expediton mounted for scientific gain doesn't merit objection. If you think it's disrespectful, bear in mind that these tombs are _ancient_. You have to draw the line somewhere, and these dead are long forgotton. If it's a religious objection then thats another matter, but not everyone will agree with you on this one.

Anyway which is worse: letting ancient Egypt be forgotton, or studying what remains of it? I'm sure that we wouldn't mind our graveyards being studied by future generations in three thousand years time, in fact we'd probably want to be remembered.