'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
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Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#2Slightly off-topic but perhaps someone has an answer:
After finishing "Dark Forest" / "Death’s End" I somehow ended up with the questions if our way of doing archaeology is actually a good idea.
Currently we i) remove a lot of things from the ground / graves / ruins, ii) analyze them, iii) put them in a museum and iv) write books about them.
This means that all the knowledge about those artifacts and our history is stored in volatile documents and fragile minds. During the next WW3 or WW4 those museums might burn down and all archaeologist might be killed in an anti-intellectual purge.
This means that a future generation will neither have the real artifacts in the ground nor our current documentation and all that knowledge about humanities history will be lost forever.
Is there any project which strives to preserve our current knowledge about humanity in some sort of long-term storage so that also people in 500 or 2000 years will be able to reconstruct even without having access to 'real' artifacts? Is this actually a problem which current archaeologist think about?
Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#3If it contains a bunch of grain we're going to owe Ben Carson an apology.
Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#4Slightly off-topic but perhaps someone has an answer: After finishing "Dark Forest" / "Death’s End" I somehow ended up with the questions if our way of doing archaeology is actually a good idea. Currently we i) remove a lot of things from the ground / graves / ruins, ii) analyze them, iii) put them in a museum and iv) write books about them. This means that all the knowledge about those artifacts and our history is s…
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Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#5Curious that Luis Alvarez (yes, that Luis Albarez) and his team did not find it in their 1970 exploration using a similar approach[1].
1. http://lappweb.in2p3.fr/~chefdevi/Work_LAPP/Arche/alvarez_70...
Edit: Thanks to jbmouret for pointing out Alvarez studied a different pyramid in the same complex!
Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#6Curious that Luis Alvarez (yes, that Luis Albarez) and his team did not find it in their 1970 exploration using a similar approach[1]. 1. http://lappweb.in2p3.fr/~chefdevi/Work_LAPP/Arche/alvarez_70... Edit: Thanks to jbmouret for pointing out Alvarez studied a different pyramid in the same complex!
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Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#7Slightly off-topic but perhaps someone has an answer: After finishing "Dark Forest" / "Death’s End" I somehow ended up with the questions if our way of doing archaeology is actually a good idea. Currently we i) remove a lot of things from the ground / graves / ruins, ii) analyze them, iii) put them in a museum and iv) write books about them. This means that all the knowledge about those artifacts and our history is s…
With launch costs coming down it'll soon be more practical to launch a satellite into orbit that can store this information for a long time.
Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#8Slightly off-topic but perhaps someone has an answer: After finishing "Dark Forest" / "Death’s End" I somehow ended up with the questions if our way of doing archaeology is actually a good idea. Currently we i) remove a lot of things from the ground / graves / ruins, ii) analyze them, iii) put them in a museum and iv) write books about them. This means that all the knowledge about those artifacts and our history is s…
Current archeologists only excavate sites 'at risk' e.g. new building development or looting. In all other cases, they strive to do non-intrusive exploration e.g. ground penetrating radar and lidar.
Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#9Slightly off-topic but perhaps someone has an answer: After finishing "Dark Forest" / "Death’s End" I somehow ended up with the questions if our way of doing archaeology is actually a good idea. Currently we i) remove a lot of things from the ground / graves / ruins, ii) analyze them, iii) put them in a museum and iv) write books about them. This means that all the knowledge about those artifacts and our history is s…
With launch costs coming down it'll soon be more practical to launch a satellite into orbit that can store this information for a long time.
Never to be found again
Re: 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
#10If it contains a bunch of grain we're going to owe Ben Carson an apology.
And Macgyver?