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Hong Kong Dentist Crafts Robotic Tools To Explore Egyptian Pyramids

Posted by timothy on from the ya-gotta-have-a-hobby dept.

asavin writes "Ng Tze-chuen, a 59-year-old dentist, is teaming up with Egypt's former antiquities minister to explore the Pyramids of Giza. To do this, he's invented a tiny insect-sized robot with dental forcep-inspired grips on the top. This will be used to travel between the cracks on two mysterious doors blocking a tomb."

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  1. Upuaut but not as tiny by future+assassin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Upuaut_Project

    There was a very cool show about it several years ago.

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    by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
  2. Re:Zahi Hawass by n3r0.m4dski11z · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That guy is a complete xenophobe. I wouldn't trust a word he said. He goes on "crusades" liberating Egyptian relics from museums in other parts of the world. He personally dictated if you got to see off limits spaces, off limits relics in "his" sites in the country.

    He got kicked when the fascists were overthrown.

    That said, this is very interesting because that is the one mystery left (unless there is another door :P). Is there alien shit in there? is it just a pile of poop? If you watch any recent documentary about the pyramids, its always leaves you with a mysterious allure of the It is like finding jimmy hoffa or something.

    http://news.discovery.com/history/great-pyramid-secret-door-mystery-111209.html

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