Scientists carrying out a new survey
of the Egyptian pyramids have made an unexpected discovery. The unimaginatively
named "Operation Scan Pyramids" began on the 25th of October and will
take more than a year. The study will attempt to detect radiation emitted from
the ancient monuments on the Giza plateau in Egypt , including that at the infrared wavelength range which
indicates a heat source. They have already published some of their perplexing
results. Three constituent blocks at the base of the Great Pyramid, or the
Pyramid of Khufu, are considerably warmer than those surrounding them. This
could be due to the presence of different building materials or air currents
within the structure, but it could indicate the existence of a void inside the
monument. Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mystery-heat-spots-found-in-pyramids/ar-CCaWwK?ocid=twmsn.
This is extremely interesting because it has long been speculated that the
known passageways and chambers within the Pyramid are not the only ones. The
pyramids of Egypt have been broken into several times during their four-and-a-half millennia history, mostly in the hope of finding golden jewels
like those in King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings . There are a number of rooms within the building given
names such as the "King's Chamber", "Queen's Chamber", "Antechamber",
"Grand Gallery" and the "Abyss". These are connected by
corridors that are clearly intended for people to walk along, although some
areas were sealed by stone blocks and had to be broken up to allow access. The
latest of these closed routes was discovered in 1872 by the Scottish
archaeologist and engineer Waynman Dixon. Dixon used a hammer to detect an empty space behind the wall of
the King's Chamber by sonic resonance. He broke through the wall and found a horizontal
shaft leading away from the chamber. Unfortunately it was only eight inches
across and bent upwards after about six feet. He found another shaft on the
opposite wall of the chamber. These shafts both exited the outside of the
pyramid further up the structure and he guessed went there in a straight line. This
is why they were originally thought to be ventilation ducts of some kind. Then Dixon turned his attention to the Queen's chamber and found
similar shafts, but these did not exit the monument's exterior. He designed a
tool with an extended handle, like a chimney sweep's brush, to probe the shafts
and he found some artefacts; a copper hook of some kind and a wooden stick, but
his own tool broke off while inside the shaft and he could make no further
progress. We would have to wait a hundred and twenty years before a new adventure
into these enigmatic shafts could commence. In 1992 a German engineer called
Rudolf Gantenbrink designed a special robot to travel along the shafts. He
found one of the shafts from the Queen's Chamber blocked by a stone door with
what looked like metal clasps. Beside the door some crude marks had been
painted on the walls. These are most likely the numbers 100, 20 and 1 in
Egyptian hieroglyphics. This would make sense because the shaft at that point
was 121 royal cubits in length, the unit of measurement ancient Egyptians used,
equal to about twenty inches. This must mean the marks are the work of the
pyramid builders. Gantenbrink's successors, the Djedi (pronounced "Jedi" as in Star Wars) Project redesigned the robot with a drill and it made a
hole through what was now known as "Gantenbrink's door" and inserted
a pinhole camera. The image that came back was frustrating; it showed merely a
continuation of the shaft for a foot or so, and then a second obstructing
block. The other shaft, on the opposite wall from the Queen's Chamber, bends
sharply to the left after about forty feet to avoid the Grand Gallery, too sharply
for the robot to move round, and more refits to the remote explorer were
necessary, but eventually the archaeologists found a second door just like the
one in the first shaft, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2XxOPo0Gcc.
(Graham Hancock suspects that some fraud took place and that the second shaft's
door does not exist and the photographs of it are merely copies of those of the
first door, see: http://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?1,86354,86393.)
This is where research has halted.
After this, a much larger hole would need to be made in Gantenbrink's door to
allow any vehicle through, or the door would need to be removed altogether. There
is no means at present to achieve that. It's reasonable to suppose that there are
indeed unknown formations inside the Great Pyramid; after all some of the
presently known ones were originally sealed off. If so what are they? What
might lie inside any secret isolated chambers deep within that giant stone
edifice? The problems of discovery are not just technological; they are
political. The academic authorities in Egypt have often resisted any innovative ideas related to the Giza complex. For years this establishment was personified in the form of Dr
Zahi Hawass, Egypt 's Minster for Antiquities. Gantenbrink reports how Hawass
was very uncooperative and obstructive with his project. Here he is getting
angry at a debate with Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ziu2ygE_Wc.
A while ago I also covered the potential plight of the Egyptologist Anna
Garnett and the mysterious moving statue in the Manchester
Museum Egypt and, by extension, the world. They censor and vet anything
going on that might upset their familiar apple cart. However, with the addition
of this new evidence of thermal radiation coming from inside the Great Pyramid,
how can they realistically maintain the false narrative this time?
See here for background:
http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/strange-new-discoveries-in-egypt.html.
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