Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
- The Pyramid Shafts: From Dixon To Pyramid Rover
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- Explore Tunnels Inside Great Pyramid Of Giza In 3d Tour
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- New Probe Of Mystery Pyramid Shafts
http://tinyurl.com/877ua "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...
- Unseen Markings In Great Pyramid
A robot travelling up the so called air shaft of the great pyramid has found red builders markings behind a door with metal pins in it in the shaft. The robot was built by engineer Rob Richardson from the University of Leeds as part of the Djedi project...
Egypt
Hieroglyphs found recent in Great Pyramid are numbers
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
Mysterious hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza are just numbers, according to a mathematical analysis of the 4,500-year-old mausoleum.
Shown to the world last month, when the first report of a robot exploration of the Great Pyramid was published in the Annales du Service Des Antiquities de l'Egypte (ASAE), the images revealed features that have not been seen by human eyes since the construction of the monument.
Researchers were particularly intrigued by three red ochre figures painted on the floor of a hidden chamber at the end of a tunnel deep inside the pyramid.
"There are many unanswered questions that these images raise," Rob Richardson, the engineer who designed the robot at the University of Leeds, told Discovery News. "Why is there writing in this space? What does the writing say? There appears to be a masonry cutting mark next to the figures: why was it not cut along this line?" Richardson wondered.
Luca Miatello, an independent researcher who specializes on ancient Egyptian mathematics, believes he has some answers.
"The markings are hieratic numerical signs. They read from right to left, meaning 100, 20, 1. The builders simply recorded the total length of the shaft: 121 cubits," Miatello told Discovery News.
- The Pyramid Shafts: From Dixon To Pyramid Rover
Em Hotep! (Keith Payne) Another excellent summary of a subject that fascinates the public. Last May the Project Djedi Team caught the world’s attention, and imagination, when they announced that the robot crawler designed to explore the southern shaft...
- The Great Pyramid's Secret Doors In 2012
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Will the mystery over the Great Pyramid's secret doors be solved in 2012? I dare say yes. After almost two decades of failed attempts, chances are now strong that researchers will reveal next year what lies behind...
- Explore Tunnels Inside Great Pyramid Of Giza In 3d Tour
New Scientist New Scientist was first to reveal some exciting findings from an innovative robotic exploration of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. A robot built at Leeds University in the UK, called Djedi, explored a mysterious tunnel thought to lead...
- New Probe Of Mystery Pyramid Shafts
http://tinyurl.com/877ua "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...
- Unseen Markings In Great Pyramid
A robot travelling up the so called air shaft of the great pyramid has found red builders markings behind a door with metal pins in it in the shaft. The robot was built by engineer Rob Richardson from the University of Leeds as part of the Djedi project...