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From the article: The ScanPyramids team is being very careful not to describe the cavity as a "chamber". He says the muon science is sound but he is not y
by forgot-my-pw 9y ago
From the article:
The ScanPyramids team is being very careful not to describe the cavity as a "chamber".
He says the muon science is sound but he is not yet convinced the discovery has significance.
"It could be a kind of space that the builders left to protect the very narrow roof of the grand gallery from the weight of the pyramid," he told the BBC's Science In Action programme.
"Right now it's just a big difference; it's an anomaly. But we need more of a focus on it especially in a day and age when we can no longer go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder as [British] Egyptologist Howard Vyse did in the early 1800s."
One of the team leaders, Hany Helal from Cairo University, believes the void is too big to have a pressure-relieving purpose, but concedes the experts will debate this.
TLDR: don't get too excited.