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ELI5: Why haven’t we fully explored the pyramids yet? (self.explainlikeimfive)

submitted 1 year ago by Pezzer3D to c/explainlikeimfive

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I was watching a documentary where they were talking about a void within the great pyramid and how we don’t know what’s inside it! How come we haven’t we been in and had a nose around?

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[–] Tangent 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The void isn't like a room we simply haven't entered, it's more like the equivalent to an empty space inside the walls of your home. It's there, but there are no passages leading to it. About 75-80% of the interior volume of the pyramids is solid stone as far as we know so it's much less like a modern building and more of a huge pile of stones that happens to have a few open spaces with passages leading to them.

Here's an article that includes an illustration showing just how solid they are as well as the recently discovered void and more info on how they found it using cosmic rays of all things: https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Cool explanation! Thanks!

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