New Robots Are Revealing Ancient Egypts Secrets

What do robots and Egypt have in common? In this video you will find out! Step into the world of robotics and archaeology as we embark on a groundbreaking mission to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza. In this adventure, we introduce you to a team of state-of-the-art robots, designed to traverse the intricate passageways and chambers of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Over 4,500 years have passed during the time that the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt's most well-known monument, has been standing tall. The tomb and the fortification are made up of two million blocks, but they have not been completely secure against intrusion.
Ancient looters stripped the building of its priceless artifacts thousands of years ago. Since then, experts have investigated the building's inside, either by examining the structure's corridors or by using more modern measurement methods such as thermal scanners.
The structure is still guarding a great number of mysteries, but beginning in 2015, an international group of researchers known as the ScanPyramids team has been employing subatomic particles to investigate the monument's undiscovered facets.
In 2017, they unearthed a massive hole that they have imaginatively called the Great Void and which is located just above the pyramid's gallery; nonetheless, the function of this gap is still a mystery.
Scientists want to solve the mystery of how two strange gaps were formed inside the Great Pyramid by using cosmic particles known as muons and potentially by employing very small robots. The possibilities vary from a new burial chamber to a construction corridor that has been closed up completely.
Muons, which are subatomic particles and are regarded to be one of the most fundamental building elements of the cosmos, travel through the atmosphere of Earth and sometimes collide with anything that is solid on the ground as they travel through space.
The density and thickness of a particular item impact how the muon is absorbed by the object, and this is something that can be measured.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is 455 feet tall and was the highest human-made building in the world until the completion of the Lincoln Cathedral in England in the 14th century. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built by the Pharaoh Khufu, whose reign began about the year 2551 B.C.
In an article that was released in November of 2017, the journal Nature published a claim that scientists working on the Scan Pyramids project had discovered two gaps in the Great Pyramid that had not been discovered before.
The bigger of the two gaps is at least 98 feet in length and may be found directly above a massive corridor that is referred to as the grand gallery. This corridor is the one that leads to Khufu's burial chamber.
The smaller hole may be found behind the north face of the pyramid, and it is made up of a tunnel with an unknown length. Muon detectors and thermal imaging equipment were used in order to do this research.
The researchers want to carry out more muon tests within the Great Pyramid, and they are now working on constructing robots that may be able to penetrate the pyramid's smaller gap and see inside using a camera with a high resolution.
At this time, the only significant piece of information concerning the greater emptiness that the scientists have is its length. "There is a big difference if the [larger] void is horizontal or if it is inclined," said Mehdi Tayoubi, the president and co-founder of the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute, which is one of the institutions involved with the Scan Pyramids project.
"There is a big difference if the [larger] void is horizontal or if it is inclined," said Mehdi Tayoubi. According to Tayoubi's explanation, if the greater emptiness is sloped, for example, it is possible that it is a vast tunnel similar to the grand gallery. If, on the other hand, the void is horizontal, then it may contain one chamber or more than one chamber.
In addition, according to Tayoubi, it's conceivable that the smaller vacuum, of which scientists are already aware that it consists of a corridor, might have at one point been connected to the greater emptiness in the distant past.
In order to get this knowledge, the researchers are going to install muon detectors in areas of the Great Pyramid that have not before been explored. These areas include a series of so-called relieving chambers, which may be found in close proximity to the bigger emptiness.