Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza (Khufu)

Re:Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid a... by dwringer on Thursday October 27, 2022 @04:13PM (#33363394)

This is absolutely fantastic, the only thing I note with some sadness is that the well shaft leading down from the entrance tunnel of the Queen's Chamber is not mapped. The grated-off hole leading down into it is visible and the model does show a cavity there, but there is also a chamber (called the "Grotto" in old diagrams) partway down which is said to have been at the top of the limestone mound on which the pyramid is built. Was it not permitted to access this area?

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Re:Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid a... by hfo on Thursday October 27, 2022 @04:33PM (#33363645)

Also missing: The horizontal passage, the queens chamber, the descending passage, the lower chamber and the passage to the relieving chambers of the kings chamber. They're all not accessible for tourists. The tour covers what you would see as a normal visitor (not ie an archeologist with special permission).

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Re:Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid a... by dwringer on Thursday October 27, 2022 @04:37PM (#33363691)

That's not entirely true - both the queen's chamber as well as the descending passage are indeed mapped. There's a note when entering the descending passage: "This is normally blocked off to visitors, but we can visit in our tour!"

If you didn't get to them by clicking through the photos, you can click the lower left "Dollhouse mode" icon to get a 3d viewer, in which these things are visible. They are both included on the "guided tour" mode, however, if you just load the page and click through the prompts in the middle.

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