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Judi Lynn

(164,164 posts)
Fri May 24, 2024, 12:17 AM May 2024

Archaeologists perplexed by large 'anomaly' found buried under Giza pyramids


Researchers say they can’t determine material causing the anomaly

Vishwam Sankaran
3 days ago

Archaeologists have stumbled upon what they described as a large “anomaly” buried under the Giza pyramid complex in Egypt.

Researchers used new tools like ground-penetrating radar to assess the area under the Western Cemetery in Giza to see if anything undiscovered was buried there.

They discovered a pair of underground structures – one shallow, the other deep – beneath a royal graveyard near the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid.

The archaeologists described the structures as an anomaly because their density differs from that of the surrounding ground.

They believe the structures are man-made due to their shape and suspect that they were backfilled after construction.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/giza-pyramid-egypt-anomaly-buried-b2547793.html
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Archaeologists perplexed by large 'anomaly' found buried under Giza pyramids (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2024 OP
Quick! Somebody make a theory that it's outer space alien stuff. keithbvadu2 May 2024 #1
Aliens planted Gort and he will now decide if we should be destroyed since we detected him. Hermit-The-Prog May 2024 #2
Gort revives and starts vaporizing all the conservative politicans in the world Traurigkeit May 2024 #4
I don't want to hear anybody saying, "Klaatu barada nikto" until he's finished. Hermit-The-Prog May 2024 #5
Design error! Aussie105 May 2024 #3

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
1. Quick! Somebody make a theory that it's outer space alien stuff.
Fri May 24, 2024, 12:45 AM
May 2024

OK. I just did.
Now, you fill in the details.

Aussie105

(8,173 posts)
3. Design error!
Fri May 24, 2024, 02:33 AM
May 2024

"Stop digging down guys, the Pharaoh has decided we build up, not down.
Just fill it all in, and look at the new plans!"

. . . followed by non-union grumbles from the workers, no doubt.

Give a bunch of curious scientists and archeologists some ground reading radar, and they will play happily all day.

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