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Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Get some big cranes, take it apart, record where everything goes, then put it all back together again when done. Carefully of course...

What happens when we put it back and end up with extra pieces?

Those were just extras in case we lost some.

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What happens when we put it back and end up with extra pieces?

Those were just extras in case we lost some.

Better make those hotter so we can easily find them with thermal imaging, then.

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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There are two things to keep in mind. Rafaello and Michelangelo worked with stone that wasn't nearly as hard as granite (granite being one of the hardest stones). Secondly, we don't believe metals were nearly as developed during the period of dynastic Egypt and some Egyptologists theorise (but I think this is crazy) that stone tools were used to carve the blocks.

Granite? Who crazy would come up with the idea to build pyramids with something as heavy and hard as granite. They were not even carved out of limestone blocks, they were casted by an early form of concrete created using a mixture of limestone, clay, lime, and water. Similar to how they would have been built nowadays. http://www.livescience.com/1554-surprising-truth-great-pyram...

The walls of the king's chamber are pink granite. They also happen to be some of the more precise work in the pyramids.

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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It could be a coincidence, but I wonder if this piece (published 3 days ago) was inpsired by this 6-day old Reddit thread: "ELI5: Why don't we already know everything that's inside the pyramids?" https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3s7ljo/e...

I suspect both were inspired by US Presidential candidate Ben Carson's recent claims that (he believes) they were built by Joseph to store grain (as per the Book of Genesis).

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Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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@nightspirit Ben Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist and he does believe that the Pyramids of Giza were built by the Biblical Joseph to store grain. I'm sure he's also interested in gaining the support of Christian and Jewish voters but this is ultimately an example of one of his personal beliefs.

> Seventh-day Adventist and he does believe that the Pyramids of Giza were built by the Biblical Joseph to store grain. This is not a belief of the church. We have enough FUD spread about various religions.

Actually we don't have nearly enough uncertainty and doubt.

http://www.adventist.org/en/beliefs/humanity/creation/

"God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity. He created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day."

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist, and hence a young-earth creationist. (Yes, I know. It's mind-boggling, isn't it?) And he's stood by the remark. So almost certainly he was being (and continues to be) serious.

All Seventh-day Adventist are NOT young-earth creationists.

That may be, but it is official church doctrine:

http://www.adventist.org/en/beliefs/humanity/creation/

"God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity. He created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day."

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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Why are people using infrared to look for new chambers and passages? Muon detectors, using cosmic rays for the source, were used in the 1960s to conclude: > We can say with confidence that no chambers with volumes similar to the four known chambers in Cheops's and Sneferu's pyramids exist in the mass of limestone investigated by cosmic-ray absorption. The volume of the pyramid probed in this manner is defined by a ve…

I'm guessing a big part of it is "The explored volume is 19 percent of the pyramid's volume." Eliminating the possibility of huge chambers is cool, but it would also be cool to find out if there's anything in the other 80%. Do you know if they ever succeeded in searching the whole pyramid?

LOL! It's going on right now! As part of this exact research project!

The BBC article only mentioned infrared, but http://www.popsci.com/archaeologists-will-scan-egypts-pyrami... says the researchers are "[a]rmed with thermal imaging, muon detectors, and drone-mounted laser scanners."

Re: Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids?

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> Seventh-day Adventist and he does believe that the Pyramids of Giza were built by the Biblical Joseph to store grain. This is not a belief of the church. We have enough FUD spread about various religions.

Actually we don't have nearly enough uncertainty and doubt. http://www.adventist.org/en/beliefs/humanity/creation/ "God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity. He created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day."

Yes, now get into a debate about the time it took those seven days. My original statement stands, and I expect just as much FUD this time as we had in the 60's.
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