Egypt prepares new probe of pyramid mystery

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CAIRO - Egypt will send a robot up narrow shafts in the Great Pyramid to try to solve one of the mysteries of the 4,500-year-old pharaonic mausoleum, Egypt's top archaeologist said on Monday. Zahi Hawass told Reuters he would this week inspect a robot designed to climb the two narrow shafts which might lead to an undiscovered burial chamber in the pyramid of Cheops at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo.

Hawass said the shafts and stone panels which block them could mark the location of the burial chamber of Cheops, also known as Khufu. That would mean none of the chambers already discovered in the pyramid were the pharaoh's real tomb.

The shafts were last probed in September 2002, when a robot drilled a hole through one of the stone panels to reveal a small empty space at the end of wwhich lay another panel, which appeared cracked and fragile.
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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Cool!

[leveymg]

2. Is Cheney's face going to melt, if they find the Arc of the Covenant?

:grr:

[jackstraw45]

3. Too funny...

:rofl:

[Perky]

4. Umm

WHat would the Ark be doing in an Egyptian Pyramid? Everyone know the Ark is in a small chapel in Ethiopia under Guard.

[yella_dawg]

6. Doesn't Rove remind you of

that twisted little sadist who got burned by the headpiece in "Raiders".

[DistressedAmerican]

5. The First Study Was A Good Start! I Am Glad They Are Going Back In.

However, the specualtion about them leading to a tomb strikes me as mainly media hype. I was just reading a story the other day about scientists using cosmic ray (muon) detectors inside the pyramids to look for hollow spaces. Interesting stuff!