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- From: mstow@csc.liv.ac.uk (Martin Stower)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Hidden Chamber (really!)
- Date: 17 Aug 93 17:31:44 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
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- Some recent news may make recent pyramid discussions redundant!
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- What seems to be a hidden chamber has been discovered in the Great Pyramid.
-
- (I had to read it a couple of times to convince myself it was bona fide.)
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- The German Archaeological Institute in Cairo was engaged in a project to
- improve the ventilation of the Great Pyramid. The plan was to clear the
- two small passages leading from the King's Chamber, which had become
- clogged by rubble:
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- German engineer and roboticist Rudolf Gantenbrink was given the task,
- achieved by the simple expedient of attaching a point to an old lorry
- axle and dropping it down the shafts; after which he used a small, tracked
- robot with a video-camera to study the shafts before fans were installed.
- He next requested permission to use his robot to explore a similar passage
- leading from the Queen's chamber, which lies lower down in the pyramid.
- And this is where the story gets interesting.
-
- The passageway is 20cm square and rises from the Queen's Chamber at an
- angle of 45 degrees. It was previously thought to extend no more than
- eight metres, but Gantenbrink sent his robot up and it just kept on going
- (very slowly) for 65 metres. Over the last couple of metres, the walls
- of the passage changed from rough to finely polished limestone, and then
- the robot came to a door. This is possibly of alabaster or yellow
- limestone, with tongue and groove fittings suggesting that it might be
- raised or lowered.
-
- The door has two copper fittings near the centre, which have been
- variously described as handles or just plain strips. A gap exists at the
- bottom of the door, too small for the camera to see through, and in front
- of this lies a scatter of black dust. The robot is to be refitted with
- a fibre-optic lens and light-source later this year, which should be able
- to peer through the gap and show what lies beyond the door.
-
- (_Fortean Times_, Number 70)
-
- What's behind the door?
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- Martin Stower mstow@csc.liv.ac.uk
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