Pyramid's Mystery: Soon to be revealed?

This news is actually very interesting and cool, I must keep up with it!

(CNN) -- The wonders of the ancient world don't give up their secrets easily. But the most advanced modern technology is being put to use in Egypt to answer questions about the most advanced ancient engineering -- Egypt's Great Pyramid.

The National Geographic Society, using the same kind of robot used to search for survivors in the ruins of the World Trade Center, is trying to solve a mystery that lies deep in the bowels of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza.

Up a tiny square tunnel is a stone hatch with copper handles that was discovered in 1872. No one knows the purpose of the shaft, and no one knows what lies behind the hatch.

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CNN's Ben Wedeman reports scientists in Egypt are using a mini-robot device to explore a secret shaft in the Great Pyramid in Giza (September 12)


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A mini-robot, dubbed the pyramid rover, has been called in. This modern marvel is about 5.5 inches wide and 1 foot long. Its four sets of treads, two above and two below, engage the bottom and the top of the tunnel to give it traction.

Rick Allen, with the National Geographic Society, said the pyramid rover fits all the necessary requirements for scaling the tiny crevices.

"It has to be an extraordinary engineering feat to go up a 40-degree, 200-foot shaft," he said. "It also has to carry an extraordinary amount of scientific equipment in the lightest possible vehicle in a design that allows it to fit in the shaft and to keep it from slipping down."

Crawling up the shaft at about five feet per minute, the rover is maneuvered remotely from a makeshift control room in the pyramid's queen's chamber.

Hoping to see many wondrous things
Ground-penetrating radar and ultra-sound can, at best, get just below the surface of the pyramid.


The pyramids of Giza: The Great Pyramid is on the right.
On Monday night, the team hopes to dig deeper into the mystery. The rover will insert a fiber optic camera through cracks in the hatch to see what is on the other side.

Speculation about what the rover will find is intense. Some believe there could be a secret chamber or long lost ancient documents. Others venture there may be nothing at all.

Whatever is there, archaeologists are thrilled they're finally going to get a peek.

"To find out what is behind the door -- if there is something, it will be great," said Zahi Hawass, with the Higher Council of Antiquities. "If there is nothing? It will be great."

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How cool would it be if they found R2 and C-3PO?

 

They will most likely find...nothing.

That is my most arrogant opinion.

 

Anything like this, fancinates me a lot!

They said they will do it Monday, and Man I can't wait to hear what kind of things they find, or nothing.

And, what the heck happened to this story, they said there is a mysterious tower in China maybe built by Aliens, but that was like June story, what have they found OUT, anyone know?

 

BTW, the exploration will be broadcast live on FOX Monday night!

I hope something miraculous Happens!!! We watch it and be stunned of the secrets it contains

Who knows... ?

 

This sounds pretty cool. I'll have to check out the broadcast on Monday.

Even if they don't find anything, it's one step closer to knowing everything about the pyramids.

 

They did a similar show like a year ago, but if I remember correctly, they found nothing really.

I hope this time is slightly different, it would be nice to see some ancient powers come to life, or whatever secrets of the universe.

Can't ya tell my life is bored?

Here is the main National Geographic website on this.

 

Wow, didn´t know the chinese have so many pyramids. The largest has twice the height of Khufu's pyramid

 

Yeah, that news is kinda OLD (June), and they should have some kind of answer, or do they?

What I hate about CNN is that they tell a cool story, but they NEVER update it with NEW informations.

BTW, who do you believe built the Pyramids.

Aliens? Human? or Both?

 

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Humans built them, of course.

I think the ancient civilization of Egypt was much more advanced than we give them credit for.

Their knowledge has been mostly lost with the passage of 3000 years.

 

That door was not descovered in 1882 it was discovered in 1996 by Dr Grantebrink when he sent a small robot into the shaft of the queens chameber

There he discovered the door since ten Hawass has blocked all attempts to open the door, there was talk that it was going to be opened on Newyears eve 1999 but that never happened

 

I saw a similar show about this and they believed that the chamber is piched somewhere around 65 and 70 degrees at a upright angle. They went and made the theory that it was a chamber that took the Queen's soul to a certain group of stars in the sky. So they say....

 

"Their knowledge has been mostly lost with the passage of 3000 years."

The destruction of the great library at Alexandria, contributed greatly to this.

All the Egyptians knowledge was stored on paper, or in this case papyrus and when that library went down, it set science back a couple of hundred years. Rumour has it that the Egyptians even knew that the world was spherical.

As for the pyramids, I don't really think they'll find too much, besides low ceilings and stuffy, cramped rooms and tombs. I've been down inside the smallest of the three great pyramids, and it's not exactly the most accommodating environment one could imagine. Personally I believe the pyramids were built voluntarily by the Pharaoh?s subjects during the winter months after the harvests, so they would have something to do.
They would have taken decades to build and a lot of architectural thought to work out how to move 10-ton blocks upwards.

I also think that the pyramids, like Stonehenge, have an astrological significance, like a map of the night sky, as the Egyptians were very interested in the sun, moon and stars.

 

stipulation, stipulation, stipulation.

 

I love this stuff. Unless it brings about the end of the world. Some devil maybe trapped in it.

`Maybe they will find my dignity.'

I think we should stick to reality here please.

 

UP!!!!!

 

I would love to find out what they find. I'm studing Egyptain art in college now and it's amazing. These people were extreamly smart.

 

For thousands of years the ring lied there.

Until something happened that the ring did not expect.

It was picked up by the most unlikely of things.

A robot.

"Where is my preeeeeciouuuuuus!!!???"

 

LOL!

 

Fox broadcasting live.. why do I smell something framed?

"You're on Frame Up, Fox's new real-tv show!!"

 

Argh! Why are people so DAMN skeptical about it? And, many not even interested?

I talked to someone yesterday, and he said he doesn't care. He has other things to worry about in life.

This is a age-old mystery, may reveal a lot of life, and you aren't interested?

 

I bet Geraldo wishes he could have come up with this to try and make up for the Al Capone's Vault fiasco.

 

How do you think they moved the blocks of stone?


Personally, I think it was kites.

 

>Fox broadcasting live.. why do I smell something framed?<

As far as I know, this event is for real!

And, I wish MORE people is Interested!