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Pyramids secret PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Monday, 30 August 2004
Two French amateur archaeologists this week published a book in which they claim to have located the secret burial chamber of the Pyramid of Cheops near Cairo, the largest pyramid ever built. They claim a fourth, undiscovered, room lies underneath its so-called Queen's chamber, and is likely to have been the burial chamber for Cheops, an Egyptian Pharaoh who ruled from 2560 to 2532 BC.

Cheops' final resting place has never been found, despite decades of investigation at the site, but the researchers are being denied access to the pyramid to test their theory.

Using a technique called microgravimetry, which measures the density of materials, Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yves Verd'hurt discovered what appeared to be a cavity underneath the Queen's chamber, where they also found evidence that the stone tiling had been moved at some point.

Japanese scientists later confirmed the existence of a cavity a few metres wide, using radar technology. The French team suggests this is a corridor leading to a further chamber, hidden deep in the belly of the pyramid, which could be the elusive sepulchral room.

Egyptian authorities are denying them access on the grounds that neither is a specialist.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3588067&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
 
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