Cosmic Rays Reveal Hidden Chambers Inside The Bent Pyramid Of Pharaoh Sneferu

MessageToEagle.com – Located 25 miles south of Cairo, Egypt, the 4,600-year-old Bent pyramid was one of the earliest to be built under the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu.

In October last year, scientists announced “King Senefru’s Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, Egypt was selected to be the first pyramid that will be subjected to invasive — though non-destructive — scanning techniques using cosmic rays in cooperation with scientists and experts from Japan, France and Canada.

‘Scan Pyramids’ project will help to uncover millennia old secrets of the Old Kingdom pyramids at Dahshur and Giza. The project will also provide 3D photos and a detailed study of pyramidal architecture in Egypt. Now we are learning about the first results.

According to Mehdi Tayoubi, president of the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute and a co-director of the ScanPyramids mission, “more than 10 millions of muon tracks were analyzed” from the plates installed inside a chamber in the Bent Pyramid.

“We count the muons and according to their angular distribution we are able to reconstruct an image,” Tayoubi told Discovery.com.

‘Scan Pyramids’ Project: Secrets Of The Pyramids Are To Be Finally Uncovered

“For the first time ever, the internal structure of a pyramid was revealed with muon particles. The images obtained clearly show the second chamber of the pyramid located roughly 60 feet above the lower one in which emulsions plates were installed,” Tayoubi said.

Researchers hope to create definitive maps of structures’ inner chambers, perhaps even find Queen Nefertiti’s hidden tomb.

The technology used on the Bent Pyramid will also be used on two pyramids in Giza and two others in Dashur.

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