Presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson once said that he thought that the Egyptian Pyramids were built for grain storage and not mausoleums.
This from the New York Post:
Something is heating up inside Egypt’s ancient pyramids
Two weeks of new thermal scanning in Egypt’s Giza pyramids have identified anomalies in the 4,500-year-old burial structures, including a major one in the largest pyramid, the Antiquities Ministry announced Monday.
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty and technical experts working on the project showed the higher temperature being detected in three specific adjacent stones at the bottom of the pyramid in a live thermal camera presentation to journalists.
The scanning showed “a particularly impressive one (anomaly) located on the Eastern side of the Khufu pyramid at ground level,” the ministry said in a statement. The largest of the three Giza pyramids is known locally as Khufu and internationally as Cheops.
What we know so far of the construction of these pyramids is still minimal - the chambers and passageways we have discovered only account for a few percent of the entire volume. What else is in there? Louis Alvarez (one of my major heroes) did a delightful experiment in 1968 using background cosmic muon radiation to probe for unknown chambers. Didn't find anything though. This would be an interesting experiment to revisit as the detection technology has gotten a lot better.
And I would not be so hard on Dr. Carson for his belief in the grain storage aspect of the pyramids - this is just a 'talking point' of his Seventh Day Adventist spiritual practice. There are a lot of spiritual practices out there and Lord knows, they all have their 'talking points'. Global Warming for one. Islam for another. Progressivism. Christianity. Pastafarianism. I could go on...
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