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

MessageToEagle.com – ‘Scan Pyramids’ project that will be implemented at the end of October, will help to uncover millennia old secrets of the Old Kingdom pyramids at Dahshur and Giza, according to Ahram Online.

“The survey will be implemented through invasive — though non-destructive — scanning techniques using cosmic rays in cooperation with scientists and experts from Japan, France and Canada,” Mamdouh Eldamaty, Egypt’s antiquities minister  said.

The project will also provide 3D photos and a detailed study of pyramidal architecture in Egypt.

“King Senefru’s Bent Pyramid in Dahshur was selected to be the first pyramid that will be subjected to such a survey due to its distinguished and unique architectural design and because it is the first attempt at pyramid construction that has not been carefully studied,” Eldamaty said.

The Bent Pyramid – that stands at 105m high and is 188m at the base, rising at a 54 degree inclination – was constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Sneferu (2613-2589 BC) but with design flaws.

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One of them was that there was a very unstable base for it made of desert gravel and clay that has the tendency to subside when a large amount of weight is put on top of it.

Another design flaw in this pyramid is that the engineering of it consisted of the blocks being cut in such a way that the weight angles down, causing all of the weight of the pyramid to push down towards the center.

It is thought to be the reason the pyramid is “bent” and changes angles about halfway up the sides. Sneferu was not pleased with this pyramid, so he built another called the Red Pyramid.

Eldamaty also explained that the cosmic rays are immensely high-energy radiation, mainly originating outside the solar system, are also used by the Japanese for early detection of volcanoes and earthquakes.

During this survey, a cosmic rays laboratory will be used for thr first time outside Japan and will be only the second one ever.

The survey is a joint venture between Japan and Egypt in collaboration with a consortium from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, as well as the Heritage Innovation and Preservation Institute in France, all of which are under the supervision of the Ministry of Antiquities.

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Ahram Online