'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza

Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by the_rosentotter on Thursday November 02, 2017 @05:03PM (#15614268)

I'm aware that they were subjected to grave robbing. That seems like more low-level thieving than actual organized pillaging though, which required destroying structure to pull off, as evidenced by the fact that the most important artifacts, including the riches of the burial chamber and the sarcophagus itself, were still there until modern times.

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Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by notahacker on Friday November 03, 2017 @07:22AM (#15618262)

We have written confessions of systematic grave robbing from the time of the Pharoahs, and successive generations of Pharoahs came up with ever-more-elaborate schemes to make tombs more difficult to break into, none of which succeeded.

Finding Tutenkhamen's tomb that hadn't been systematically cleared of all its contents was unprecedented but owed nothing to being protected by any elaborate superstructure that needed destroying, and everything to do with it being concealed by mudslides and workers' huts rather than the sort of superstructure graverobbers were used to partially dismantling to find a way in.

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Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by eponeponepon on Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:18PM (#15614814)

At Giza? No, the burials were long since disrupted by the middle ages. I don't think there's even much solid agreement that there ever even was a burial in the Great Pyramid.

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Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by KGIII on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:40PM (#15621360)

I think you'll find the sarcophagus is there because it is too large to be stolen. As I recall, we've never even found human remains in the pyramids themselves.

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