"Plane-sized 'void' discovered in Great Pyramid"

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sushi_chef
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"Plane-sized 'void' discovered in Great Pyramid"

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A passenger plane-sized “void” has been discovered in the middle of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, where it has lain secret and untouched for 4,500 years, scientists revealed on Thursday.
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https://www.24matins.uk/topnews/headlin ... ists-28925
cheops morishima
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sushi_chef wrote: November 2nd, 2017, 8:32 am "
A passenger plane-sized “void” has been discovered in the middle of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, where it has lain secret and untouched for 4,500 years, scientists revealed on Thursday.
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https://www.24matins.uk/topnews/headlin ... ists-28925
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Fake news. Plus there are no pictures to prove it.

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Z2100 wrote: November 2nd, 2017, 8:34 am Fake news. Plus there are no pictures to prove it.
That was my first thought too. Then I learned that the source for this news was an article published in Nature:
Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons
The Great Pyramid or Khufu’s Pyramid was built on the Giza Plateau (Egypt) during the IVth dynasty by the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), who reigned from 2509 to 2483 BC. Despite being one of the oldest and largest monuments on Earth, there is no consensus about how it was built. To better understand its internal structure, we imaged the pyramid using muons, which are by-products of cosmic rays that are only partially absorbed by stone. The resulting cosmic-ray muon radiography allows us to visualize the known and potentially unknown voids in the pyramid in a non-invasive way. Here we report the discovery of a large void (with a cross section similar to the Grand Gallery and a length of 30 m minimum) above the Grand Gallery, which constitutes the first major inner structure found in the Great Pyramid since the 19th century. This void, named ScanPyramids Big Void, was first observed with nuclear emulsion films installed in the Queen’s chamber (Nagoya University), then confirmed with scintillator hodoscopes set up in the same chamber (KEK) and re-confirmed with gas detectors outside of the pyramid (CEA). This large void has therefore been detected with a high confidence by three different muon detection technologies and three independent analyses. These results constitute a breakthrough for the understanding of Khufu’s Pyramid and its internal structure. While there is currently no information about the role of this void, these findings show how modern particle physics can shed new light on the world’s archaeological heritage.

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