This is amazing!
Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
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#192I'd love to hear about the process you went through to get something like this approved. I am very curious and slightly scared of the sort of red tape that is involved for a proposal that starts "I'd like to do something to the Great Pyramid," even if it's as innocuous as taking pictures. Or was it maybe a right place right time sort of thing where you were there with an existing scientific investigation and it was significantly simplified.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stone contractor promised to deliver 1000 blocks, only installed 753 blocks. Pocketed the difference.
That contractor must have had really big pockets...
That's what I think whenever I play Minetest. My inventory can fit 40 stacks of 99 cubic meters of stone: 3960 cubic meters, about 10000 tonnes. I guess Sam's backpack is bigger on the inside than the outside...
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#194This is absolutely fantastic, the only thing I note with some sadness is that the well shaft leading down from the entrance tunnel of the Queen's Chamber is not mapped. The grated-off hole leading down into it is visible and the model does show a cavity there, but there is also a chamber (called the "Grotto" in old diagrams) partway down which is said to have been at the top of the limestone mound on which the pyrami…
EDIT: I was wrong, it's all there. Amazing!
Also missing: The horizontal passage, the queens chamber, the descending passage, the lower chamber and the passage to the relieving chambers of the kings chamber. They're all not accessible for tourists. The tour covers what you would see as a normal visitor (not ie an archeologist with special permission).
Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
#195This is absolutely fantastic, the only thing I note with some sadness is that the well shaft leading down from the entrance tunnel of the Queen's Chamber is not mapped. The grated-off hole leading down into it is visible and the model does show a cavity there, but there is also a chamber (called the "Grotto" in old diagrams) partway down which is said to have been at the top of the limestone mound on which the pyrami…
EDIT: I was wrong, it's all there. Amazing! Also missing: The horizontal passage, the queens chamber, the descending passage, the lower chamber and the passage to the relieving chambers of the kings chamber. They're all not accessible for tourists. The tour covers what you would see as a normal visitor (not ie an archeologist with special permission).
That's not entirely true - both the queen's chamber as well as the descending passage are indeed mapped (though the very upper part of the descending passage is blocked). There's a note when entering the descending passage: "This is normally blocked off to visitors, but we can visit in our tour!"
If you didn't get to them by clicking through the photos, you can click the lower left "Dollhouse mode" icon to get a 3d viewer, in which these things are visible. They are both included on the "guided tour" mode, however, if you just load the page and click through the prompts in the middle.
I was hoping that the OP might reply to provide more insight on what specific restrictions there might have been, considering some special permissions appear to have been granted. It presents as a bit of a mystery since the site claims "for the first time ever, explore the full interior" and makes no mention of any missing areas.
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#196The 'mystery' chamber in the base of the Great Pyramid is a functioning pulse pump - this researcher measured it and built a scale replica: https://sentinelkennels.com/Research_Article_V41.html The mechanisms of the Great Pyramid can only be conjectured about in the present day because of the extensive damage to the structure, but it's pretty clear it served /some/ purpose.
> but it's pretty clear it served /some/ purpose.
One would think the sarcophagus in the center would give away what that purpose could have been...
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#197For anyone interested in the great pyramid, here is a book recommendation (free), IMHO it surpasses even the gold standard "Maragioglio and Rinaldi" (M&R).
Unfortunately on that horrible academia.edu site:
https://www.academia.edu/72468121/The_Great_Pyramid_Part_1_A...
https://www.academia.edu/75544329/The_Great_Pyramid_Part_2_A...
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#198This is exactly what is needed in archeology. High quality imaging & survey, not historical speculations tied up with this or that professor’s ego-driven “school of thought”.
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#199Thanks 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…
When I was in school, I visited my granddad during summer holidays. This was right before I would have history class for the first time at school, and my granddad showed me a book my dad gave him as a present, which was about the Pyramids in Egypt. I was fascinated by the book, and got to know that this is what history is about, so I got really excited. Holiday was over, school began, first hour of history class bega…
Beautifully written comment.
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#200This is exactly what is needed in archeology. High quality imaging & survey, not historical speculations tied up with this or that professor’s ego-driven “school of thought”.
Exactly, share the facts not interpretations