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New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
- wildzzz 2mo agoMakes sense, the king dies unexpectedly, you need a tomb real quick. It probably takes years to dig these tombs and that's assuming you've found a suitable place to dig. You pick an existing tomb of a less popular ruler, wall of some sections (but maybe leave the artifacts?), renovate the new main chamber for him, and put a new name out front. It's like those dilapidated buildings in NYC where the ground floor is some store but everything upstairs is basically uninhabitable decay. The store makes enough rental income to justify not renovating the upper floors into something actually usable.
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- Teever 1mo agoThis has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand and detracts from the converstion.
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- crustyoldhuman 1mo agoI feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they're hiding aliens. i'm exhausted.
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- candlemas 1mo agoIn the related articles sidebar there is an article from 2020: Is this Nefertiti’s tomb? Radar clues reignite debate over hidden chambers A new survey hints at a previously unknown space beyond Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y
- kaonwarb 1mo agoThere may well be a surfeit of articles, but at least in cancer research, we've had extraordinary progress recently. See, for example: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02745-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02745-5
- dekhn 1mo agoWhile the popular press does bungle nearly all cancer research findings, the last 20 years have been unbelievably productive in cancer treatment. No, we haven't and aren't going to cure cancer any time soon.
- BurningFrog 1mo agoThe thing is that "cancer" is thousands of separate diseases with similar traits. We'll never cure all of the at once, which is what "cure cancer" means, but we've been curing plenty of them lately!
- timr 1mo agoIf by “curing”, you mean, “extending some indirect measurement that doesn’t correlate with survival”, then sure. Lots of those, usually backed by tiny, poorly controlled trials. Daraxonrasib was a rare exception. Most new cancer drugs are expensive and of dubious efficacy. Even daraxonrasib has a rather underwhelming life extension benefit, and huge side effects. But there’s no alternative, so people take what they can get.
- odyssey7 1mo agoWhat is the physical limitation that prevents a very big metal detector from telling us if there’s gold or other signatures?
- snypher 1mo agoThe balancing act between Egyptian tourism mystery golden goose eggs, and just cutting the pyramid in half.
- weinzierl 1mo agoThis is a good question and there is a real practical answer. The tomb is not in a Pyramid but deep in a mountain reachable by a narrow stairway. You'd have to cut away or dig through the mountain to come close enough for a metal detector.
- adastra22 1mo agoOr just stand on the other side of the wall?
- itopaloglu83 1mo agoI genuinely wish there was a magical way to just disassemble the whole pyramid and put it back together without any damage.
- weinzierl 1mo agoThere is no pyramid, he is buried in a mountain.
- odyssey7 1mo agoThanks
- jamwise 1mo agoThe 10 year old inside me is so incredibly excited. My actual 10 year old self was obsessed with tombs and ancient Egypt. I remember a whole summer I couldn't stop thinking about and talking about the "Sphinx on the face of Mars". Thankfully these days I have friends, but I have been rewatching all of Stargate so this is very timely.
- nadermx 1mo agoSG1, such a cool premis
- SEJeff 1mo agoKREE!
- rogerdickey 1mo agopemis
- toast0 1mo agoI've also been watching Stargate (on season 2), it's fun getting to know the Vancouver area as Jack and friends explore the galaxy but always end up in the PNW ;) Just found this list of filming locatiobs. https://rdanderson.com/stargate/locations/index.htm https://rdanderson.com/stargate/locations/index.htm
- jamwise 1mo agoYeah very cool filming locations. Also the university they filmed the Tollana planet is where they filmed certain scenes from the new Battlestar Galactica.
- NooneAtAll3 1mo agosadly, the reboot got cancelled :(
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- GolfPopper 1mo agoSo they're saying there's one tomb, that seems very real, that conceals a hidden entrance to another, larger tomb complex? Okay, sure, explore away. But I'm not coming along, and if you find any jeweled skulls don't touch them.
- AnotherGoodName 1mo agoIncidentally i always found the idea of an explorer grabbing the mysterious jewelled skull and getting cursed similar to the thought exercise of how we warn future cultures about the dangers of long term radioactive waste. The warning needs to transcend language so you probably think a skull is pretty clear right? Put a big skull there, maybe make it light up or eye catching in some way just to really seal the deal? Surely they understand "don't go near this". Yet in a million years time you're probably going to get some explorer "finding the mysterious and cursed crystal skull" who will subsequently die of "the mysterious curse". It would have made a more interesting ending for that Indiana Jones movie that's for sure.
- walrus01 1mo agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20150912011810/http://www.wipp.energy.gov/library/PermanentMarkersImplementationPlan.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150912011810/http://www.wipp.e... and https://gwern.net/doc/technology/1993-trauth.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/technology/1993-trauth.pdf
- derektank 1mo agoA somewhat timely SMBC has the correct solution: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waste-2 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waste-2
- yencabulator 1mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... I kinda wish they had used > This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. > What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
- skiing_crawling 1mo agothis would have been a fun headline 20 years ago but as technology has improved, it's getting more and more absurd that we don't just have multiple datasets from different imaging methods of the whole entire structure.
- tastyfreeze 1mo agoLook no further than the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Nothing is allowed to proceed or be published without their sign off.
- pandemic_region 1mo agoYeah they have no interest in fast revealing everything at once. Egypt's GDP largely depends on these Antiquities so you want to mine them as slow as possible.
- itopaloglu83 1mo agoDo you blame them for trying to protect and control things? It might be a little extreme, but we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun.
- ViktorRay 1mo agoI have fond memories of reading National Geographic magazine growing up. I remember they had memorable issues with King Tut. And Ancient Egypt in general. Made me fall in love with learning about Ancient Egypt. Anyone else here have fond memories of reading those old National Geographic issues?
- peri-cl 1mo agohttps://archive.is/Iw0JJ https://archive.is/Iw0JJ
- adriand 1mo agoLet her rest in peace.
- SoftTalker 1mo agoSuperstitious nonsense.
- codedokode 1mo agoInteresting, I read about excavations in beginning of 20th century on Wiki: > In protest of the government's increasing restrictions, Carter and his associates stopped work in February 1924, beginning a legal dispute that lasted until January 1925. Under the agreement that resolved the dispute, the artefacts from the tomb would not be divided between the government and the dig's sponsors, as had been standard practice on previous Egyptological digs. Why they did have a rule that private persons can take away the artifacts? It would be better not to dig anything.
- afpx 1mo agoI often wonder where these artifacts end up. There are probably a couple hundreds thousand artifacts that have been looted. If you search for information, you'll find reports that they were sold on the black market. One surprising thing is that immediately after the first two US-gulf wars began, professionals came in a dug down 10 meters at archeological sites, and reportedly over 100k artifacts were looted. However, I just checked Google's AI and it initially refuses to agree with this even though those numbers were reported by the scholars in their reports. If you challenge Google's AI (I haven't tried the others), it will eventually agree but will still be really vague about it. The recovery of the dead sea scrolls is also interesting. They 'appeared' in caves in Qumran, but many early reports suspected they were placed there. Also interesting is the character "Kando" who ended up trading them. Given recent current events (I won't mention names to avoid my comment being downvoted out of the search history), we know there are a lot of powerful people who are into the occult and ancient rituals. So, I suspect a lot of the artifacts end up with them. Who knows.
- userbinator 1mo agoThe tomb, which was built in the fourteenth century bc and discovered in 1922 Discovered 104 years ago, and yet... Ballard says he doesn’t yet have permission from the Egyptian authorities to release all of the data Oh FFS... doesn't space-based ground-penetrating radar already exist?
- pyuser583 1mo agoHow does this compare to the conspiracy theories floating around? I’ve been hearing something like this from very disreputable sources.
- qingcharles 1mo agoWhat happened to all that nutty looking "giant complex found under pyramids" stuff from last year that went mega-viral? https://www.egypttoursportal.com/egypt-tourism-news/study-finds-vast-underground-complex-under-giza-pyramids/ https://www.egypttoursportal.com/egypt-tourism-news/study-fi...
- singularity2001 1mo agoit was debunked a few days later by ancient architects and other real scientists
- yesitcan 1mo agoNo it wasn’t
- clemailacct1 1mo agoThis is an outright lie. No it wasn’t.