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My takeaways: - From the entrance, all the way to the Grand Gallery ... it doesn't not feel like that was an intended entrance path. It gives the vibe of an auxiliary tunnel (not main path). - It's extremely "industrial". For what historians claim to be a monument, there's not a single hieroglyphic that I saw. It was the opposite of being ornate or lavish. - There's numerous deep groves intended to guide something la…
My takeaways: - From the entrance, all the way to the Grand Gallery ... it doesn't not feel like that was an intended entrance path. It gives the vibe of an auxiliary tunnel (not main path). - It's extremely "industrial". For what historians claim to be a monument, there's not a single hieroglyphic that I saw. It was the opposite of being ornate or lavish. - There's numerous deep groves intended to guide something la…
> it doesn't not feel like that was an intended entrance path The accompanying text says the entrance was made by robbers forcefully breaking through some random section because they did not find the true entrance. So they dug until they hit the existing tunnels.
Here's an interesting article:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/inside-the-great-pyram...
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In a few hundred years geopolitical balances could be wildly different than today: Egypt could somehow come to dominate as a new global empire with Cairo as it's capital, opening it to the vulnerability of a nuclear attack, removing the pyramids before we ever get to develop the scanning technology.
I wonder… would a nuclear attack wipe out the pyramids? Not one directly on them, but centered on the nearby city?
What if we nuked the pyramids? I'm not saying we should, but I am saying like, you know, maybe.
Nahhhh, we would never do something like that. It would be a travesty.
But like, maybe, we could just like, ynkow, just drop 1 nuke on the pyramids. Just as like, a little thing.
No, no way would we do that. Neeeever would we do that.
But just 1 nuke? right on top? That would be, that would be something. It would be interesting. I mean the pyramid is so symmetric. It's one of those things with a mythical power. Same thing with a fission weapon! Mystical power. It would take just 1 nuke going off right on top of the pyramids for like -- something crazy might happen.
I really like the tool. However, I just hit an issue... Somehow, I was dragging in the view, and it did a text select on the whole view. Now, everything is highlighted blue as if I selected it, and I don't know how to de-select it.
Originally, the exterior of the pyramid was covered in polished limestone (casement) that has since fallen off/been removed. Apparently you would have been able to see them from many miles off as incredibly bright triangles.
I wonder if they'll ever be restored.
Thanks for the feedback! Didn't know if people would like this. If this is interesting, and you'd like to learn more about Ancient Egypt, here are a few more sites that I've worked at: Luxor Temple: https://luxortemple.mused.org/en/guided/178/luxor-temple Tomb of Queen Meresankh III at Giza: https://giza.mused.org/en/guided/4/tomb-of-queen-meresankh-i... I've mostly been working around the Mediterranean, Central Amer…
I loved the tour! You did an amazing job. I thought I should pass along that I found a misspelling. You wrote "sarcophaus" instead of "sarcophagus" in the text within the King's Chamber.
Incredible. Thank you so much for that. What an incredible project and one I think will make a huge impact for years. Question. I noticed a very unusual experience I've not felt before in a 3D world; I started to feel claustrophobic - so much so I had to close the tab. I'm curious; has anyone else experienced the same do you know? If so, any ideas why it should be so powerful a feeling in this particular case?
I think it's the combination of "movement" and very high res pictures. Once you start moving into the tunnel you really get the feeling you are there. Also the rig might have been set at 6' (that's matterport's default recommendation, or at least it was) so you really feel the low ceilings.
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I wonder… would a nuclear attack wipe out the pyramids? Not one directly on them, but centered on the nearby city?
Now you have me thinking. What if we nuked the pyramids? I'm not saying we should , but I am saying like, you know, maybe. Nahhhh, we would never do something like that. It would be a travesty. But like, maybe, we could just like, ynkow, just drop 1 nuke on the pyramids. Just as like, a little thing. No, no way would we do that. Neeeever would we do that. But just 1 nuke? right on top? That would be, that would be so…
(Cf. "Transformers 2")
My only comments: - we clip through the walls sometimes - I would have liked to travel a little more slowly sometimes - some kind of indication of horizon (like airplane attitude guage to get a sense of how steeply we are descending?
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I wonder if they'll ever be restored.
Probably not as that would be quite a... pharaonic task.