Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings?

Praxiteles writes "A radar survey in 2000 found KV63, the tomb excavated near King Tutankhamen's tomb earlier this year. (KV stands for Valley of the Kings). Just announced is that this same radar survey shows an image of what appears to be a shaft to another tomb just 15 meters north of KV63. Will radar stratigraphy change the multi-millennial tradition of destructive excavation and open new opportunities in the search for buried treasure?"

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Re:Lips of Truth Speak to Ears of Wisdom

[Anonymous Coward]

They have. Allegedly. I was reading abot some (Brazillian I think) guy who demonstrated a device
he built as a mine detector. It works slowly but can find anything burried within anything
as long as there is a material anomoly. I was very suspicious of the story because it had
all the "scientists" saying it was "impossible" and the guy wouldn't fully share the method
until it was patented. Anyway he did a practical demonstration and discovered several
buried bodies, arms caches and stuff in a field that had been eluding police for 15 years.

Anybody got that link? Anybody debunked it yet?

Google UnEarth

[Ageing Metalhead]

All we need is a deep radar satellite, to spin around the world, and then we can have "google unearth". People searching the globe with their PCs looking for buried treasure from their armchair. Mind you, it will probably throw up more unearthed Mafia corpses than treasure ;-)

Re:Lips of Truth Speak to Ears of Wisdom

[Quantum Fizz]

Neutrinos are notoriously difficult to detect, for precisely the same reasons that you propose using them as imaging - they can travel through nearly everything. I used to work for the SNO project back around 1996, the amount of engineering and technological sophistication that goes into a detector like this is quite amazing.
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Back in the day there were proposals about using neutrinos to communicate with submarines and other military vehicles around the planet, since neutrinos can travel through the Earth. Since a military vessel would have to have a very small neutrino detector (to keep its mobility), the detection of neutrinos by this thing would be super low. IIRC, expected usable bandwidths (not sure if they actually did the experiment or not) would be something like a byte per day, which is obviously too low to be useful for military.

Re:Reeves is not all he's cracked up to be

[barakn]

FTFA, with the part you omitted highlighted in bold:

Reeves was falsely accused of involvement in antiquities smuggling and his permit was revoked. In August 2005, he was officially cleared of any wrongdoing by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), though not allowed to return to his work in the Valley.

Perhaps they just didn't have enough evidence.

Whenever they talk about tomb robbers I laugh

[voss]

Good for the tomb robbers...That treasure was collected off the backs of thousands of
slaves and from the pockets of honest egyptians for thousands of years. The "tomb robbers"
are not thieves, that stuff was abandoned the same as a sunken treasure ship. The egyptian government didnt even care until they realized they could make money off it.

At least the tomb robbers did something with the gold and treasure instead of just taking
from innocent people and burying it. What good does it do history yet another
Golden mask sitting in some museum somewhere. At least the tomb robbers enjoyed the
treasure and put the gold into the economy.

You want to talk about a treasure...the palimpset of archimedes is a treasure, the Rosetta stone is a treasure, the ruins of pompeii and karnak are treasures, Gold should be used for the living not the dead.