Two weeks of new thermal scanning in Egypt’s Giza pyramids have identified anomalies, including a major one in the largest pyramid, the Antiquities Ministry announced Monday.
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty and technical experts working on the project showed the thermal differences in the pyramid in a live camera presentation to journalists.
The scanning showed “a particularly impressive one (anomaly) located on the Eastern side of the Khufu pyramid at ground level,” the ministry said in a statement. The largest of the three Giza pyramids is known locally as Khufu and internationally as Cheops.
Experts “concluded the existence of several thermal anomalies that were observed on all monuments during the heating-up or the cooling-down phases”.
The thermal scanning was carried out during sunrise, as the sun heats the structures from the outside, and then during sunset as the pyramids are cooling down. The speed of the heating and cooling phases was used to uncover “hypotheses” such as empty areas in the pyramids, internal air currents, or different building materials used.
“To explain such anomalies, a lot of hypotheses and possibilities could be drawn up: presence of voids behind the surface, internal air currents,” the Egyptian Antiquities Ministry said in a statement, but didn’t explain what these possibilities are.
The structures are over 4,500 years old.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
So what’s the discovery?
Apparently, they found either a hidden room or hole behind the outside surface. There is no path way to this hole or we would have known about it. The heat signature is different for empty space than solid rock.
Also, there are “internal air currents”.
Sorta’ left you hanging, didn’t they…..
Most reporting and articles are like this now days. Headlines are totally misleading promising interesting facts and then when you go to the article it turns out to be nothing filled with a lot of ads interwoven into the article.
Some of the limestone blocks on the east side are showing warmer temps. than what were expected…No conclusions have been forthcoming yet. I noticed that the US is not included in this thermal program…France, Japan and 2 more are doing the study.
I have the same question too. Have you noticed the quality of reporting especially on the internet going to the dogs? What happened to this art form? Many articles I read on the internet I see spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes. I see sections of the report being repeated more than once in the same article. Articles like this one that get you all hyped up to read it and then leave you hanging. So what is the anomaly? It is not mentioned. Isn’t that what the article is about? This is so stupid. Really, I can’t believe editors are allowing such things to happen. Seems like the editors aren’t doing their jobs and there is bad quality reporting out there all over the place now, not to mention that when it comes to political reporting, the reporters seem to a spin on the story based on their own prejudices. Such a shame that such a fine art has been reduced to this. I wonder if anyone other than the readers notice?
Obama now controls the FCC . We will never hear about anything serious again as long as he is in office . Like the strange light seen over California and Nevada Sat night. They said it was an unarmed navy missile test . But no air craft can fly over the area for 5 days !! Hummm , what are they hiding from us .
Oscamma Propaganda machines and lying lips… easily fools the ignorants. – What you don’t know, cannot be corrected.
Segregation is natural and normal among animal species… Why are humans forced into co-habitation.? Un-natural living!
I agree with both of the above comments!
If the point to the article was and is the anomaly, then where did the subject matter go?
How can anyone that proof reads his / or her own work butcher an article the way this one was, and even remotely think of themself as a journalist?
And to let it slip through the hands of the actual proof reader, if there even is one is unbelievable! At least twice the same vitally important primary reason for even writing the article in the first place was somehow overlooked!?! How does THAT happen?
Surely you must care more than that about the quality of product you put out!
Don’t you owe yourself as much as those who will endeavor to read your articles to be more careful than that?
It’s quite a letdown to have a catchy title get your attention only to have it lost again due to an anti climactic event as missing the entire point to the discussion!
It won’t take very many more times of that kind of writing for your entire website to be shut down and run completely out of business due to a lack of interest because of a seeming lack of credibility!
I know the pool you have to pick from is limited, but C’mon people. Don’t you screen them for their qualifications?
Do you believe in insisting on the best employees to protect your investment and agenda?
How credible are you if you’d let these things slip?
I tried commenting on the Jeb Bush article saying he would have killed ‘baby Hitler’….all I got was a statement that I was replying to quick….what the hell does that mean? I’m 82–I have to answer quickly just in case 🙂
I almost felt this article would somehow be either tied in with the debacle (if you could call it that) about Dr. Carson’s remark regarding the pyramids having been used for grain storage, or that it was offering something scientific and new about the ancient monuments. Neither was the case, so like the other commenters here, I have to ask, “What anomaly?” If this anomaly is simply the way the thermal imaging reacted differently in one spot than in others…um, so what?
I also have a theory about the poor writing of so many news articles these days. Laziness and financial restraints. With the new tech that enables someone to talk into a computer and have it translate it into print format, lots and lots of errors are possible, especially when it comes to homonyms, or words that the computer either didn’t “hear” or that the speakers’ regional accent rendered incomprehensible to the machine. The result would be all the errors, some of which are laughable, that we find in these articles. Instead of typing up their reports, some journalists take the lazy way out (thereby saving their bosses money) and let their voice-translation programs do the heavy work. And proof-reading? Ha. The result are articles that would embarrass a third-grader. And then, of course, there’s auto-correct, a nasty little program that seems to think it knows what we’re trying to say better than we do. So where does the ultimate responsibility fall? On the editors. But hey, who’s paying for an editor these days when they have spell-check, voice translators, and auto-correct? My elementary school English teacher is face-palming in her grave.
Meanwhile, back a Giza…
FYI: interesting about the pyramids, the fact that Joseph used them to store grain to feed the whole known world of that time! Biblically he did! Read it in the Bible! Where
else could he store that much grain to feed everyone? He was very wise! Read the account in the book of Genesis. He was enslaved in Egypt, where he was imprisoned; sent to jail, found to be the only one who could fix the problem with food shortages;
Which he did! I believe the nobility also had their burial grounds in different pyramids than the food supply’s were in.
Also, I agree about ‘autocorrect’! When it gets done, I have to correct everything it supposedly corrects!
Maybe this is the secret chamber where they stored grain
The pyramids may still have a few secrets left to uncover.
Most of the pyramid stories seem to be from western sources and there is good possibility of speculatively opinionated conclusions. I would rather hear from real Egyptian scholars than western newsmongers.