The robot that will try to reveal the secrets of the Great Pyramid at Giza has been put into action (update)

Researchers cannot enter the Great Egyptian Pyramid because of the tiny openings

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(Update 24/9/02)
The robot exploring the Pyramid of King Hufo in Egypt has revealed a hidden door
by Tamara Traubman

Using a small robot inserted into the largest pyramid in Egypt, researchers discovered a hidden door. This was reported yesterday by the director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, Zahi Hawass. On September 17, the researchers inserted the robot into the shaft located behind a stone door measuring about 20 square meters in the southern part of the pyramid. A day later the robot was sent to the winding northern shaft, where after a few days it arrived at the additional stone door. The two doors are equidistant from the queen's tomb buried in the pyramid.

The pyramid is known as the pyramid of King Khufu and was built more than 4,000 years ago. It rises to a height of about 140 meters, and is the largest of the group of three pyramids located near the Sphinx.

"The robot discoveries together represent the main new information about the 'Great Pyramid' for more than a hundred years," said Hawass.

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The openings in the great Egyptian pyramid in the ancient city of Giza, south of Cairo, lead to a space behind which is another door. This was revealed yesterday, live on the American National Geographic channel. The discovery was made possible after a special robot carrying a camera was inserted into the sealed space of the pyramid.

Four openings with a diameter of about 20 centimeters lead into the space of the great pyramid. Since the researchers cannot pass through the openings and since the destruction of the outer wall is also out of the question, the researchers are still unable to explore the north side of the pyramid.

However, technological progress finally made this possible: the "Irobot" company from Boston developed a special robot, known as "Rover", with a narrow and elongated structure (similar to a toy train). A camera is installed on the robot so that it will be possible to find out what is hidden inside the pyramid.
Since the structure is built of heavy stones, the possibility of controlling the robot using radio waves was ruled out, so the control was done using cables connected to it directly.

Yesterday, viewers of the "National Geographic" channel (and the "Fox" network) could watch live the process of the robot's surfing along 60 meters inside the pyramid. The surfing took about two hours, but at the end it was discovered that the space ends with another barrier - apparently a door - made of limestone. But what seemed to be a complete disappointment to the viewers, did not disappoint the experts who were partners in the operation at all. For them, it seems, any information about what is in the pyramid space is valuable. Zahi Hawass, director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, which is participating in the operation, said that this is an "important discovery". Tim Kelly, president of the television division at "National Geographic", also claimed that he is not disappointed. "I enjoyed the moment of discovery. We succeeded in our mission," he said.

One of the interesting moments in the research was when Haas opened the lid of a coffin in a tomb built near the Great Pyramid. A complete skeleton was discovered in the closet, which the researchers believe to be that of a senior official from the time the pyramids were built. The skeleton will be sent to the laboratory in order to find out more details about his identity and the date of his burial.

The pyramids of Egypt, considered in the ancient world to be one of the seven wonders of the world, were built during the reign of the kings of the fourth pharaonic dynasty (2613-2565 BC), as tombstones for the kings of the dynasty. The largest pyramid, the one explored by the robot, was built by King Khufu, who declared himself the "god of the sun" during his lifetime, compared to the other kings of the dynasty who believed that they would become "gods of the sun" only after their death. The length of the base side of the pyramid is 233 meters, and its original height is 147 meters. Today it is about ten meters lower, because one of the Turkish sultans, who ruled Egypt, removed the top coating layer from it. The pyramid consists of about 2.3 million blocks of stone, the average weight of which is about two and a half tons. The blocks of stone were floated down the Nile from their original mining site in Aswan, and from there they were driven to the site of the pyramids on wooden rollers, on a road specially paved for that purpose.

A robot will try to solve the mystery of the pyramid of Giza
Next month, the robot will climb tens of meters in one of the secret passages in the pyramid, to solve the question of what the two passages leading out of the Queen's room were used for

from the news agencies

A mysterious passage in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt will be explored next month by a robot, in an attempt to discover one of the last secrets of the remains of the ancient world. This is what the British "Times" reports today (Tuesday).

The robot will be sent to find out what lies beyond one of the secret passages that has intrigued researchers since its discovery in 1872. The robot will climb to a height of about 65 meters along the passage, which leads to an unfinished room.

The robot will use the smallest ground antenna to reach the remains of the chamber built at the time of Pharaoh Khaops, whose construction was completed about 4,500 years ago. If the robot, called the "Pyramid Rover", discovers another structure of interest across the corridor, such as another large chamber, it will send a camera consisting of a flexible optical fiber through the slits in the walls to transmit the first images from the place. The entire process will be broadcast live on the "National Geographic" channel, on September 17.

The pyramid of Cheops contains two large rooms - the king's chamber, which contains the tomb of Cheops, and the queen's chamber, which is smaller, and is below it, and despite its name, was apparently not intended for his wife. This room is unique not only because of its size but also because it is built of two diagonal channels that move upwards. They are unique because they are blocked at the ends.

There are many theories about the purpose of the canals. The researchers do not believe that they were intended for air flow or water transfer, because they are blocked. Some researchers believe they are "stellar channels" pointing to the North Star and the Orion star system. It is generally believed that the three pyramids of Giza were placed in the same order in which the stars of the Orion system are placed.

Other researchers believe that these are "soul channels" through which the souls are supposed to pass. Others believe that the southern canal leads to a third canal, which has not yet been uncovered. In any case, everyone hopes that the robot will answer some of the questions.

The puzzle of the pyramids has not been solved

The robot sent to penetrate the target: the closed stone door with the two handles
To the mysteries of the pyramid
The largest in Giza, failed
Alex Doron

Great hope accompanied many curious people in the world yesterday morning. They stuck to my devices
Their television and computers, they bit their nails in tension and expected that it would finally crack -
Live, as promised - one of the secrets of the pharaohs. They expected that now it will become clear, what really
Hidden within the hidden chambers at the heart of the Great Pyramid of Giza, in Egypt. But rather
The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

The small robot, the size of a toy locomotive, 12 cm tall, sent to penetrate the remote control
Into the pyramid - encountered an unexpected barrier: after the well-known and blocked stone door
It was discovered... a heavy door made of hewn stone, which no one even knew existed.

The miniature robot, which received the name "Pyramid Digger", crawled about 65 meters inside
a very narrow alcove, in order to investigate what is at the end of the mysterious shaft on which a door closes,
Made of hard limestone. The robot approached the door, which was known to have been discovered
to archaeologists for the first time in the 19th century. Since then, no one has been able to find out what lies beyond it
A heavy stone door. The little robot drilled a hole in the door and inserted a fiber optic camera through it. the goal
She was to take a video of what is behind this door.

At first, everything went according to plan - until it was suddenly discovered that the ancient builders and
The amazing sophistication of the largest pyramid in the world, piled another obstacle in front of the intruders
the tombs so that it will not be possible to reveal the hidden secrets of the ancient building. the room,
To which the robot "crawled", was blocked by another stone door. No one knew of her existence and she didn't
It has been visible to the human eye for over 4000 years. The archaeologists failed, as did burglars
Tombs for thousands of years before them, who wanted to penetrate and find treasures in the thick of the building
the giant Today it is speculated that this stone door blocks an unfinished room. It may have been used
to Iveror, but some believe that it is a system of openings that was built according to the pharaonic belief
"The soul of the dead king moved, as it ascended to its permanent abode, where it will spend its days
The life-after-death".

Meant for rebroadcast
The organizers of the well-publicized archaeological operation, led by the director of the Supreme Antiquities Authority of
Egypt's Dr. Zahi Hawass, told reporters that the robot will surely return and be sent
to the pyramid to try and drill more. But this will be done, only after the video,
which was already photographed yesterday, will be analyzed and studied in all its details by another team of scientists - a craft
which may last another year. The Egyptian archaeologist promised: "There is a mystery here and it is
will be decoded. We don't know if there is something or nothing behind this door."

The robot was built by the "E-Robot" company from Boston with an investment of a quarter of a million dollars,
And the "National Geographic" magazine and the Egyptian government are also partners in the operation.
During the telecast, yesterday morning, Dr. Hawass lifted the lid of a sarcophagus
(coffin), which is near the Great Pyramid and is claimed to contain a human skeleton.
The archeologists' hypothesis is that in this sarcophagus the head of the village of builders, who built the
The pyramids. The sarcophagus was discovered last June by a casual tourist and its contents were sent for scanning
X-ray.
The Great Pyramid, built about 4500 years ago by Pharaoh Khufu, is the only one among them
All the pyramids in Egypt have stone doors, and not just one or two, but four!

Scientists believe that the doors played a symbolic role in the unique religious philosophy of
his beach He is the only one who already in his life saw himself as the sun god, while his predecessors were the pharaohs
crowned themselves as sun gods only after death. Hoffo tried to project his ideas
These at the time of planning and designing his pyramids, including the Great Pyramid of Giza.

According to the plan, the researchers were supposed to be present in the archaeological-television operation
In the room of the pyramid rooms that had already been opened and the robot, activated by remote control, had to climb
or penetrate through the great door. The door itself was built over a very heavy stone at an angle of 40
degrees and has two copper handles. In an experiment, conducted using ultrasound equipment before
Operating the robot, the researchers estimated that the thickness of the stone door reaches about 7.5 cm.

This technological operation benefits quite a bit from the fruits of previous research, done on the spot by me
German team. This team operated a similar robot about ten years ago, in 1993 he was the one who discovered it
the first door and also approached it, but was unable to enter. Work lasted six months
The design of the current "excavator": its engines, the camera installed in it and other equipment that improved the
its ability to move within the shaft. The robot used a new technology, which was tested at the time
that casualty rescue operations were conducted and when they searched for survivors under the ruins of the Twin Towers
In New York.

It must be emphasized: the Hufu pyramid was not considered a hiding place for the treasures of the pharaohs, in contrast
to other similar structures. Grave robbers have frequented the site for thousands of years and inspected it
well. But the archaeologists - professionals and amateurs - were still intrigued to find out what was found
In the closed rooms, mainly because this pyramid is, without a doubt, an amazing engineering achievement.

As is known, this pyramid has two inner rooms and one below the ground level, on the "floor".
The basement", there is a burial chamber. The doors from the upper room, "the king's room, lead to why
which is known as "the two worlds of Pharaoh Hufu": his divine revelation as the "god of the sun"
And the revelation as "Horus" - the god of all gods, who is also the god of light.

If the doors leading from the lower room are also symbolic expressions - say the robot, if
will succeed in penetrating through them to satisfy their meaning.

The only remaining wonder of the ancient world
The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - and the only one
which still attracts crowds of tourists, who, of course, bring quite a bit of money into the treasury
the egyptian The other six wonders of the ancient world did not survive and were destroyed.

Quite a bit of mystery surrounds this pyramid - among other things, how it was built. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the construction lasted 30 years and about 100 thousand slaves participated in it. According to another theory, masses of peasants were employed in the grandiose construction work, who could not cultivate their land between the months of July and November, when the waters of the Nile flooded the fields. Pharaoh paid for their work - in food.

What is known is that this pyramid like the others - the royal burial sites according to
The tradition of the pharaohs - Pharaoh's tomb was on the shore. It was built between 2600 and 2500
BC. But the tomb robbers got their hands on this tomb (and the smaller pyramids as well), even before the archaeologists even got to it. Quite a few pieces of information about that Egyptian pharaoh were completely erased and lost because of this tomb robbery.

The robbery of the pyramids probably began as early as 1500 BC. According to various sources, it was Egyptian clerics who were involved in the disappearance of the bodies from them. This was done in secret night operations and this is the reason why they stopped building pyramids and switched to a different burial method, in the tombs dug in the cliffs of the "Valley of the Kings", now Luxor.

"Time is afraid of the pyramids"

According to its dimensions - until the 19th century, the Pyramid of Giza was considered the tallest structure in the world (138 meters) - historians estimate that Pharaoh Khufu was a powerful ruler as well as a very rich one. Throughout history, this pyramid "ignited" the imagination of humans. It was once thought that these were "Joseph's Barns", which our ancestors built in Egypt, and some called it "Pharaoh's Mountains".

Who does not know the saying of Napoleon Bonaparte - who was not a particularly modest person: he was very moved by the sight of the pyramids when his army conquered Egypt in 1798 and then gave his famous speech: "Soldiers! 4000 years of history are looking at you here!" Alexander the Great and his officers also stood appropriately at the foot of the pyramids and argued among themselves how they were built and by whom.

An ancient Egyptian proverb says: "Everything is afraid of time, but time is afraid of the pyramids." Some say that this proverb was born even before Moses, the leader of the Hebrew slaves, led them on the journey out of Egypt.

No one knows the origin of the word pyramid either - it has no roots in another language. For this reason there were also researchers who claimed in the past that they "originated in other worlds", meaning they were brought
to earth from another planet.

According to the researcher of Egyptian history, Dr. Barbara Mertz, during the Pharaonic period, about 700 pyramids were built over about five hundred years. "What is mysterious to me is the fact that people still believe that this is a structure shrouded in mystery. While on the whole it is a monumental tomb, high and well carved, amazingly accurate, made of heavy stones of enormous weight, which the kings of Egypt built for themselves", she emphasized in the book she wrote.
A great mystery is how exactly this massive structure was built, when the builders actually only used their hands, very simple and primitive chisel tools. Where did these huge, heavy stones come from? How were they rolled to the construction site? How the heavy and thick stone doors were placed at the entrances of the rooms, how they carved in the interior. Researchers have devoted hundreds of books to these topics alone. Many of them bore the titles: "Secrets of the Pyramids" and "The Pyramids: The Great Mystery Solved", for example. These names contributed quite a bit to the increase
The atmosphere of mystery.

Some of the researchers devoted extensive books just to the mathematical calculations to explain to the readers exactly how the stones were brought into place, how much force was required to roll them, how many people were engaged in this tremendous work of suffering and exactly how it was done (probably, "shoulder to shoulder").

Ancient writings were added to the great puzzle, discovered mainly at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, among them by the Arab historian, who claimed that the pyramids were not just tombs but were used as "star observatories for the ancient astronomers". He was followed by a British astronomer, Richard Anthony Proctor, who stated that in the depths of the pyramids there should be transcriptions of the records of the sky, compiled by those astronomers. He relied on the writings of an ancient Roman philosopher.

There were also those who claimed that the pyramids were, in fact, "a huge vault for enormous treasures", which the pharaohs wanted to bury with them. Some claimed that in the depths of their cellars it would be possible to find mummies, mummified bodies - but to this day no evidence of this has been found. It is possible that the evidence "vaporized" with the help of the grave robbers.

The famous story about the "curse of the pharaohs" is also drawn into the mystery. In the early 20s of the last century, two British archaeologists, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tut-Ankhmun. They found a tablet on it with the sentence engraved on it (which was later defined as a curse): "Death will strike with its wings anyone who tries to disturb the peace of Pharaoh".
No one would have noticed this if people who had something to do with the work of the archaeological excavations in the tomb began to die one after another. Within seven years, 22 people died. Also Lord Carnarvon and some of Carter's staff.

In 1962, the Egyptian biologist and doctor Ezzedine Taha, a great scientist in those days in Egypt, held a press party with many participants in Cairo and solemnly reported that it was a poisonous fungus that caused the death of these people and "they could have been saved if they had used modern antibiotics." But Dr. Taha himself passed away shortly after, when he performed follow-up experiments on the same mushroom (he was killed in a car accident on a desert road). An autopsy revealed that he himself had undergone the same process of poisoning and fatal injury as his predecessors...

Of course, this affair only intensified the mystery surrounding the pyramids and everything hidden inside.

Now, they will continue to search more vigorously. There is already an "excavator" and now they hope to go through the next door to reach the solution to the mystery. Maybe.