Re:Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?
by burkaman on Monday November 16, 2015 @10:03AM
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I'm guessing a big part of it is "The explored volume is 19 percent of the pyramid's volume." Eliminating the possibility of huge chambers is cool, but it would also be cool to find out if there's anything in the other 80%.
Do you know if they ever succeeded in searching the whole pyramid?
Re:Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?
by dalke on Monday November 16, 2015 @02:49PM
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LOL! It's going on right now! As part of this exact research project!
The BBC article only mentioned infrared, but http://www.popsci.com/archaeologists-will-scan-egypts-pyrami... says the researchers are "[a]rmed with thermal imaging, muon detectors, and drone-mounted laser scanners."
Re:Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?
by rurban on Monday November 16, 2015 @10:28AM
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This 1960 investigation only searched 19% of the Chefren pyramid's mass to find a second big chamber. The other 81% still needs to be investigated. It only looked for a Cheops or Sneferu-alike Kings chamber above the Chefren Belzoni chamber.
> We can say with confidence that no chambers with volumes similar to the four known chambers in Cheops's and Sneferu's pyramids exist in the mass of limestone investigated by cosmic-ray absorption. The volume of the pyramid probed in this manner is defined by a vertically oriented cone, of half-angle 35 degrees, with its point resting in the Belzoni Chamber. The explored volume is 19 percent of the pyramid's volume. We hope that with minor modifications to the apparatus the complete mass of limestone can be searched for chambers. - http://www2.lns.mit.edu/fisherp/AlvarezPyramids.pdf
That's one of the reasons we know for certainty there is no large, unknown grain storage chamber in those pyramids.