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'Discovery of the Century': Mysterious Void Discovered In Egypt's Great Pyramid (nationalgeographic.com)
New submitter klgds writes: The cavity is the first major inner structure discovered in the pyramid since the 1800s. Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza -- one of the wonders of the ancient world, and a dazzling feat of architectural genius -- contains a hidden void at least a hundred feet long, scientists said. The space's dimensions resemble those of the pyramid's Grand Gallery, the 153-foot-long, 26-foot-tall corridor that leads to the burial chamber of Khufu, the pharaoh for whom the pyramid was built. However, it remains unclear what lies within the space, what purpose it served, or if it's one or multiple spaces. The void is the first large inner structure discovered within the 4,500-year-old pyramid since the 1800s -- a find made possible by recent advances in high-energy particle physics. The results were published in the journal Nature. "This is definitely the discovery of the century," says archaeologist and Egyptologist Yukinori Kawae, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. "There have been many hypotheses about the pyramid, but no one even imagined that such a big void is located above the Grand Gallery."
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I thought Bitcoin was the discovery of the century?
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Using the phrase "of the Century" is a very strong indication it's time to stop reading and move on because it's probably something irrelevant and uninteresting.
I wonder how long it will be before someone finally decides just to take the thing to pieces to see what else is inside. Use manual labor, low-tech tools, film it, and play in reverse to answer the question of how it was built in the first place. (as described by Zelazny in "This Immortal")
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I doubt this is of the decade, or even the year, much less the century. It's cool and all, but I have serious doubts that we'll really get much more historical knowledge out of it, even if Egypt does allow it to be opened. We'll get some great museum pieces and some people will make a lot of money, but I really can't see this as much more than 'neat' from all but the most niche of people.
I wonder whether, in today's climate of tearing down statues of famous slavers and imperialists (Jackson, Rhodes etc), people would advocate tearing down the pyramids which, for all their architectural genius, were built at a cost of thousands of lives. They're like Qatari football stadia x1000.
I thought that when the robot that was looking to the end of one of the "Star Shafts" (back in 2002), a chamber like this was hypothesized because the robot came to the "door" at the end of the shaft.
I haven't keep up with the research for a while, but I think saying that this is the "discovery of the century" is simple hyperbole.
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Perhaps it was suppose to be a much bigger chamber, but for some reason they were not able to complete it, so they made a smaller one. However they left the remains of the bigger one in place, as no one would see it or know.
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Nonsense. It is easily the hyperbole of the century.
Physicists are proud of their new portable mountain scanning X-ray machine, let them have their moment.
There have been theories of more chambers in the great pyramid for over a hundred years. There are also theories about chambers beneath the Sphinx.
The problem is the politics with government Egypt and it's people. They are a very proud people. They want their own scientists to make all discoveries. They want to promote the theories of their own scientists. They are a Muslim nation researching ancient blasphemous religions.
Next you have international archaeological politics. There are lots of crack pots out there and there are many fringe theorists that are yet to be proven right. "Science" isn't very scientific and it full of politics and prideful people that decree acceptable theories. The crack pots are the ones that are usually on to something but not for the reasons they thought and are usually not allowed near the pyramids unless they have money.
When it comes to making discoveries the Egyptian authorizes move slow even when they know they are there. They currently know about many potential chambers. While it's good not to rush things they take it to the extreme. No one gets near the pyramids to make discoveries without a sizable donation to Egypt.
Maybe it is just an empty space to save building material.
It's as stale and moldy as an email server in a bathroom.
Meanwhile, the pyramids in China are never spoken of.
Imagine how stale and moldy it will be in 2025 when Trump leaves office.
Dictionary: void = a space containing no matter
So they found literally nothing? Must be certainly the discovery of the century.
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
One of the remarkable facts of Egyptology is how nearly impossible it was to prevent tombs from being robbed over the course of thousands of years. There's never been a tomb found that hasn't been robbed at some point, even Tutankhamen's tomb. Most are picked clean of anything that might be of interest to anyone other than an archaeologist.
But it always seemed to me, given the scale of the pyramids, that there was an obvious option for deterring robbers: make the scale of the engineering project necessary to find and reach the burial chamber more costly than the value of the goods in the chamber. It's not unreasonable; the cost of even a small pyramid must have outweighed the cost of the funerary goods in it by thousands of times. I'm not talking about sealing the burial chamber with a ten ton slab of rock; I'm thinking in terms of hundreds of thousands of tons.
It has to have occurred to anyone who's pondered the pyramids that there might be things still left hidden inside all that volume. The thing is there is no way to investigate such speculation without some means of being able to see through solid stone. For that reason the matter of undiscovered chambers in the pyramids has become to Egyptology a bit like questions about perpetual motions machines are to physicists. I even saw one Egyptologist say in response to this news that there was "zero chance" of anything remaining undiscovered in the Great Pyramid.
But maybe speculation isn't so pointless, now that we in the 21st century actually *can* in a fashion see through solid stone.
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So technically if this really is the "discovery of the century" you could also accurately describe it as the "discovery of the millennium" too. Someone clearly missed the opportunity for maximum hype.
If your employer rapes you or beats you, you can have them arrested and press charges. A slave cannot.
If your employer orders your family to work, they can just say no. A slave's family, children included, can't say no.
If your employer orders you to relocate and leave your family behind, you can refuse. Slaves cannot refuse.
If your employer orders you to work for free, you can refuse. Slaves must work for free.
If you decide you don't like your employer, you can quit and go find a different employer. Slaves cannot.
It is popular to compare employment to slavery because you must work in order to live. But the two are far more different than alike, in ways that are of the utmost importance.
And anyway, why would you expect that it should be otherwise? In order to survive you must eat food, wear clothes, heat your house, etc....and all of those things come to you because others have labored to provide them. You think you should just get all that for free, and give nothing back to them? THAT would be slavery.
They never learn, do they? Some things are better left alone, such as a mysterious void in the Great Pyramid.
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Good thing you posted as AC. The first rule of the pyramids in China is "don't talk about the pyramids in China."
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We know the Flood occurred in 2348 BC (when Noah was 600 years young), and all humans were wiped out except for Noah and his direct family (who went on to love each other very, very, very much).
Now this article wants us to believe that "The pharaoh Khufu, who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C., built (the pyramid)"! Do they expect us to believe that it survived the Great Deluge? With those paintings in such condition? No way. I say they were built and painted after God invented the rainbow. Probably by Mexicans. They have pyramids there too.
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But it always seemed to me, given the scale of the pyramids, that there was an obvious option for deterring robbers: make the scale of the engineering project necessary to find and reach the burial chamber more costly than the value of the goods in the chamber. It's not unreasonable; the cost of even a small pyramid must have outweighed the cost of the funerary goods in it by thousands of times.
When you hate everyone who has a chance of inheriting your wealth, spend over 99% of it on labor to make a REALLY big tomb. Just keep enough available to enjoy those last years as your heirs slowly realize what you are doing and that it's far too late for them to do anything to stop it.
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Bares resemblance to news for nerdz more so than this pile of shit..
Plus, seriouly, whom can turn away from seriously big, beautiful, black boobies.. :) Nerdz er naught, I am sure there are many whom still have the paperback in a box somewhere..
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What bait? You mean to say that it is not true?
if the Pyramids got tore down, but they're not symbols any more, they're historic curiosities.
But even as symbols there's strong evidence that they were built for one of two reasons:
a. Religion. And I don't hear anyone calling to tear down the sistine chapel.
b. As a show of power to other nations. To say "Look what we can do, don't mess with us".
Now, as for those famous slaver monuments, they were built during the 'Jim Crow' era when the south was trying to oppress black people. They sent a very, very clear message: You are still slaves. They were not nor where they ever meant to honor the fallen. They weren't even meant as an 'F.U.' to the north. The historic significance is well know. They were put up to scare black people into submission as part of a broader campaign of terrorism that included both institutionalized violence and general fear-mongering.
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In recent light of the political climate, I think we should remove these Pyramids as they are monuments of slavery. Sorry I just could not resist.
You could not resist posting nonsense? There is no evidence that the pyramids were built by slave labor.
It has to have occurred to anyone who's pondered the pyramids that there might be things still left hidden inside all that volume.
The problem with the design is that there is little volume in the pyramid itself as it wasn't designed that way as it is the world's largest grave markers in a way. Most of the structure is used to support it's own weight. That's a problem with using only masonry as load-bearing members. If you look at medieval castles you'd find that the interiors are much smaller than you think because the walls have to be thick. Later castles that were not used as defense but more as manors or estate homes had much larger interiors.
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I think it is just a time to deconstruct them and assemble again, in order to stop all these kind of speculations.
It's some sort of heiroglyphics. Some people say they're supposed to be lights. Or is it just another one of those Erich von Daniken things?
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I thought the Pyramids were built by Yule Bryner
No, the pyramids are a show with everything in it BUT Yule Bryner. The void is where Yule Bryner would go, if he were in it.
From TFA:
> “There have been many hypotheses about the pyramid, but no one even
> imagined that such a big void is located above the Grand Gallery.”
Shouldn't that be long void?
long void is to void as long int is to int.
C'mon guys. Let's have consistency on this.
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Please please please take the time to learn the difference between the word "where" and the word "were".
Waiting for non-whites to discover something? You'll be waiting a long time.
DNA testing of mummies has revealed that the ancient Egyptians were genetically closed to Europeans than the sand nigg3rs currently squatting on that land.
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I think we me have found resting place of the remains of those who built that pyramid.
What you say may be true of smaller pyramids, but the Great Pyramid does have internal passageways and rooms. With 2.5 million cubic meters there's plenty of room.
The medieval castle analogy is apt; to a first approximation the Great Pyramid is solid rock. But you can leave plenty space for a burial chamber and it would still to a first approximation be solid rock.
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You can't expect a huge pyramid to be totally solid.
> "Science" isn't very scientific and it full of politics and prideful people that decree acceptable theories.
"Science progresses one funeral at a time -- Max Planck, originator of quantum theory
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Science, noun, trading one set of dogma for another set of dogma.
THey said they would be back next Tuesday to fill that hole.
Well, if all the gold stayed buried, the next batch of pharaohs wouldn't have had such pretty grave goods.
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It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I'm sure they're cheap knockoffs they stole the plans for anyway.
The coverage on this has been spotty so far. Has anyone said whether the muon detectors can detect and show the known shafts? If so, does this mean there are no shafts leading to the new void? Or are the shafts beyond the scope of detection, so that there might be shafts leading there?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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How about the Chinese?
FYI, the Chinese are way smarter than Egyptians.
How about the Ashkenazi jews, who are today also smarter than Egyptians are? An interesting thing here is that the Ashkenazi jews only gained this intelligence because troubles in Europe meant that they had to be smart to survive. The dumb ones died. In other words, the intelligence of a typical Ashkenazi jew today is far better than that of one long ago. The same may apply to Egyptians, in either direction: some conditions breed for smart people, and other conditions breed for dumb people.
A final hint about this: We have tested DNA from mummies. Ancient Egyptians are genetically similar to people now in Syria, while modern Egyptians are much more related to sub-saharan Africans.
I thought that when the robot that was looking to the end of one of the "Star Shafts" (back in 2002), a chamber like this was hypothesized because the robot came to the "door" at the end of the shaft.
They did finally send in another probe to drill a hole in the door, revealing a tiny compartment with either a back wall or another door. There has been no further attempts permitted since.
Not that it matters -- those shafts come from the Queens Chamber, and don't intersect at all with the newly discovered chamber, as can be seen in this diagram. The newly discovered chamber(s) are immediately above the Grand Gallery.
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They are water pumps. Gigantic water pumps to move water from the Nile onto the plains.
That doesn't seem to matter to you. You bit anyway.
Don't look now, but you're supporting my hypothesis.
There is no evidence that the pyramids were built by slave labor.
And lots of evidence that they were built by people skilled in their craft.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
This is not new. This discovery was made decades ago using very similar methodology and it made headlines back then.
it's yet another do-over of something from the forgotten and pre-internet past. It's not new to those born before yesterday.
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I never said that they didn't have internal passageways. They are minuscule compared to the volume of the Great Pyramid. Here's an article discussing the latest voids Compare the volume of the chamber vs the pyramid. Most of the pyramid is solid rock with a little left over.
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What they didn't have was technological advancement.
Not a rant. In some ways, they were technologically advanced. If I can find the document again, I'll post it. One of the items found in the tomb was an early version of a wet-cell battery.
That's where they stored the grain.
I'm really surprised no one has said "It's a Sex Dungeon" lol Those ancient peoples were kinky. Just look at the Kama Sutra.
The location and shape, along with the newness of this tech make me wonder if the readings might not be a reflection / shadow effect of the gallery, though given what's written that seems unlikely.
I've long wondered about the nasty entrance that was hacked/blasted -- how those involved decided where to bore and why they thought it was a good idea.
"Discovery of the Century"
Some guys found a whole inside an really old building. Amazing!!! My life is complete. I will die a happy man.