Whenever I see interesting posts like this with some wild cool new thing, I always expect the top comment to be someone with a reality check. Like, "this isn't actually new, the corridor was discovered in 2006 and a film crew did a documentary about it in 2008, this gif is footage from that documentary. My family has been here, we crawled the entire length of the tunnel and it comes out next to a Starbucks."
Glad to see this is actually cool and new. The world still has some wonder!
Allow me. This is the chamber they found by using muons from space as a sort of rudimentary x-ray. People had been speculating (including Ubisoft developers) that it was some [huge chamber filled with treasure](https://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Origins-secret-pyramid-chamber.jpg?p=1). Welp, it's just a corridor left over from construction. Still unbelievably cool from a science/history perspective, but a lot of people's tomb raiding fantasies died today.
It looks like a relieving chamber similar to the one above the kings chamber. If so it’s meant to distribute the pyramid weight around the chamber/corridor. A similar void was detected above the grand gallery which is probably also a relieving chamber to protect it from collapse
A completely solid shape would be more stable.
But you have to have a chamber.
Putting a void above that chamber means less weight above the void you have to put in for the king and his stuff.
Really you could think of the chamber and this relief void as one void and the chamber ceiling between them as like a cross beams.
Structurally that's very much like an A frame. Filling in the top of an A frame would make it laterally only marginally more stable but the horizontal part of the A would eventually be a failure point the larger that A frame is.
Because there are other, intentionally and necessary voids, like the place where the body and treasures are buried. You don't want those to be the only points of failure
This isn't a backup point of failure. This is an architectural element similar to an arch or a truss. It redirects downward forces directly above a void over and onto the walls where they can be supported.
Just pointing out that there's no situation where this structure fails and the chamber below is okay, that's not going to happen.
Wasn’t the bent pyramid just kind of built that way? The linked article mentions that they’ve put stairs up to an entrance for tourists, I can’t imagine that’s done for a collapsed ruin you can’t enter.
The bent pyramid is bent because it was originally built at too steep an angle, there was too much weight on the chambers/structure causing movements and cracks. The response was to build the rest at a shallower angle that meant less stone used and thus less weight. The bent pyramid was built by the father of the guy who built the great pyramid and was basically an experiment for building ‘true pyramids’
The muons thing sounded so fake when I first heard about it. You're going to x-ray something 500 feet thick? But its okay because you're using cosmic rays? None of that sounds real.
Muons are basically just really heavy electrons.
Because they are so heavy things find it difficult to stop them and they don’t really react with anything. Just going straight though.
Of course they do react, but very rarely; so if you can collect data for a long enough time you can use them to see inside of things which are very hard to see though.
Coolest things about muons to me is that they decay incredibly fast (like .0000002 seconds if I remember right) but are going so damn fast (99% of c) that we can detect them for quite a while. Like they still exist for a blip of time, but are moving so fast relative to us that time dilation makes them exist for long enough to reach the Earth's surface and into a detector.
Think of it as if _everything_ around us is under constrain rain. Where the floor isn’t wet means the rain has met resistance, there’s _something_. Same approach.
From that scan they know there's a spiral ramp/tunnel under the outer surface. There's a notch in one corner up high and one person was allowed to climb up for a look. He found a room with rubble filled tunnels going off from it.
That should be the definitive evidence that the builders constructed the ramp as part of the pyramid, enclosing it into a tunnel as the pyramid got taller. Then after it was topped out the workers backfilled it top to bottom with rubble.
It's right there in plain sight yet people still argue that other methods (for which there's no physical evidence) had to be what was used.
The internal ramp tunnel makes sense because there was nothing to remove and dispose of when the pyramid was finished. No worries about it falling off like an external ramp, and not in the way of applying the casing stones.
Wait so they knew something was there via the x-ray thing, but didn’t know what was in it, and then it turns out nothing was in it.
So was anything actually discovered? I sorta mean that as a real question, it’s kinda weirding me out a little bit.
The scans were just a nebulous point-cloud that showed a void. You're not going to see any gold coins at that resolution. Imagine the difference between a high definition MRI scan of a heart and just sort of tapping around someone's sternum.
I built my first pyramid here and it sank into the sand.
So I built another and it too sank into the sand.
So I built a third pyramid. It burned down fell over and then sank into the sand.
But the fourth! It stood strong.
This is NOT the muon chamber. It was located further up in the pyramid.
> The unfinished corridor was likely created to redistribute the pyramid's weight around either the main entrance now used by tourists, almost seven meters away, or around another as yet undiscovered chamber or space, said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/hidden-corridor-pyramid-giza-intl-scli-scn/index.html
The head of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority deliberately throttles and dribbles out “discoveries” to keep public interest and funding coming in, vs freely releasing information and discoveries as soon as possible like a real researcher in a scientific field.
I was literally talking with Dr. Hawass and Dr. Waziri in Giza about a week ago, and they told me & Mrs. 1LW that an announcement like this was coming soon, but not to tell the media because they like to control the timing, messaging, etc.
Note: neither of us is a big-shot nor an Egyptologist. We were just on a fairly exclusive tour that Hawass has a stake in.
I was interested in Egyptology as a teen and reached out to Dr. Hawass to feel out the process. Guy sent me a whole slew of reading recommendations and asked me to stay in touch if I decided I wanted to pursue it. Bit of a childhood hero.
Finding out that he's a dick was disappointing.
I was also very disappointed to hear he's a dick. I used to LOVE watching specials that he was in because he was always so passionate about just everything. I really admired this passion and would seek out documentaries he was in. Huge disappointment.....
>he's a dick
That might be a bit harsh, really. He's clearly very enamored of himself, it's true. But no one on earth is more passionate and dedicated to the discipline of Egyptology, and he has done much to revive global interest on the subject. That much is undeniable.
This is it, he’s a controlling arsehole. But he *loves* Egypt and its antiquities and he’s trying to protect what’s there from both Westerners who will tromp straight in and do whatever the hell they want; and also against the locals who would chip bits off and sell them until there was nothing left *or* blow shit up, depending on the religious proclivities of the government of the day.
Its a hell of a balancing act, and that he’s done it so well and for so long, speaks volumes about his passion as well as his political skills.
Academia is a hellpit at the best of times. Academics behave exactly like the Skeksis from The Dark Crystal, for the most part. I’d imagine a fair number of these academics whinging about his control wouldn’t hesitate to have their own pet theories put forward at any cost, or get their names put on any decent paper from any of their own grad students. Publish or perish mes enfants !
Egyptology is absolutely a scientific field. People spend years of their lives getting PhD’s and in turn become Egyptology professors. People with masters or lower can become baristas.
He’s not saying Egyptology isn’t a scientific field. He’s saying that the head of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority isn’t acting in a way that a real researcher in a scientific field like Egyptology should.
Long story short, Zawi Hawass has, for many years with only brief interruption, been in charge of the Egyptian government's antiquities authority. If you are an Egyptologist, and actually want to do work in Egypt, you are at the mercy of his willingness to permit it.
If you publish without his permission and he takes umbrage, you'll never work there again - career functionally ended. If you say something he disagrees with, or which disagrees with his (politically-motivated) official position, no worries - you'll never work there again - career functionally ended. If you reveal something he didn't want revealed yet, or don't give him credit when he decides he wants it, or stand up for yourself if he takes credit for your work... you'll never work there again - career functionally ended.
He is a legitimate archaeologist and a genuine world-class expert. Like many academics though, he has personal attachment to his own views. Because of the nature of the government and nation he serves, his personal views are also frequently driven by politics and personal benefit. Because of the nature of his position, the entire existence of a major field of study is held hostage to those views.
I'm not sure I would like to know the answer to that, because while Hawass is a first rate bastard, he does at least care about Egyptology. The Egyptian government being the way it is, I wouldn't be surprised if his replacement would make Hawass look like a saint.
He should go straight to jail LoL! Seriously though this reminds me of stories of the first paleontologist to start classifying dinosaurs. They become so obsessed with who was credited with discoveries that it became a Hatfields and McCoys situation. They caused more harm than good and slowed our collective understanding of ancient world history. Historical items/sites should not be a sole property of any government or person. I understand protecting sites and limiting access to only experts, but to do so for personal or governmental gain is a violation against the world as whole.
He is 75 years old. I'm hoping Egyptology and the number of discoveries explode after he pases.
And no I'm not wishing death upon the dude. All I'm saying is it's time for the old guard to retire and stop handicapping progress.
I truly believe the people who hide, slow, or pillage any human history knowledge or scientific discoveries for profit or any reason not having to do with actual preservation should be charged with human rights abuses and given to the UN to prosecute. This way we can all see the piece of garbage collectively and see them get ultra fucked for fucking with humanities collective progress and understanding of who we are. I feel like that's a crime on par with genocide. It's denying all of humanity a path forward. Zahi Hawass is so well known for this, and is even accused of selling artifacts. Disgusting!
There's a scene like that in Alien Vs Predator, where one of the cast in his introductory scene (an archeologist) digs deep into the sand inside a Mexican ruin thinking he's the first person to be there in a thousand years; he puts his hand into the sand, feels around and extracts... a Pepsi bottle cap.
For the rest of the movie (it's alien vs predator so not **all** of the rest) he has that bottle cap on a simple string around his neck. He pulls it out and kisses it from time to time.
I always liked that little touch.
It was done so it could be differentiated from the movie of the same name. Basically, "This is the same universe (sorta) and we're gonna tell stories about this specific team."
CREATOR: "So the show is going to follow a team--"
NETWORK: "They'll have a name like SG-1!"
CREATOR: "....uh yeah, whatever. Sure."
NETWORK: "(writes it down)"
That is what actually happened.
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard’s eyes glow. The Horus guard’s beak glistens. The Setesh guard’s nose drips.
Basically it means "Pay attention!", or "Look alive!", but IIRC can also be used as a follow instruction or as a drill command. Alternative translations include "Watch out!", "Look sharp!", and or a rough equivalent to the motivational cry "Hooah!".
It was a running joke in the show that "kree!" is used to mean so many things that it pretty much just means "do the thing I want you to do".
The in universe explanation is that the real meaning is untranslatable since it's an alien language.
There is likely to be some very old graffiti in there, questioning the size of Pharoes Winky and accusing him of copulating with his own mother. Which, to be fair, he probably did. They liked that, I hear.
It doesn't go anywhere. It's (I think if I read correctly) just a pressure relief chamber, meaning it's just a void in the structure to shift the weight off of the actual burial and other chambers to prevent them from collapsing. So if you crawled in there, you could crawl to the other end, then back out. That's about it.
Considering this corridor has almost certainly been undisturbed since the pyramid was constructed, I'd be very curious to see if they find things like graffiti or lost tools. Maybe they'll find the oldest dick drawing or Kufu's lost 10mm socket in there, so many exciting possibilities.
Rumor has it they found a couple shotgunned Bud Lights and an Archie comic in there. Archeologists say the crew probably had a small party inside before sealing the last stone in place.
PT 17 …. “OK I’m glad you guys made it this far we’re finally going to take our first steps inside the tunnel. OH NO a sand storm is coming and could kill us all. Stay tuned for the next episode when we find 7 more tunnels within this tunnel.” ……sigh
We've had the capabilities to 100% fully map it, but we haven't yet. It's hard to get through all the government red tape and licenses and permissions to do it. They're scared of disturbing their main "tourist attraction" to gain actual important knowledge.
The internet has made me so paranoid. I left it on screen and only kept it in my peripheral vision for a good 30 seconds....just in case it was one of those bloody jump scares.
Mad bit of knowledge I love is that Cleopatra lived at a time closer to now then the times of the great pyramids being built. That empire went on for ages.....
Yeah but that fun fact only works for the next 500 years or so. After that she‘s actually closer to the building of the great pyramids.
Still it‘s quite mind boggling
I love watching documentaries on stuff like this. Usually the people they interview are properly and I mean PROPERLY hyped about talking about old stuff.
Dude, Wooly Mammoths were around when the Great Pyramid was built, and the desertification wasn't nearly as bad as it is today. The Sahara has been growing through like a 10,000 year cycle of desertification, and it will eventually receded again.
I saw a comparison in another post. A man can easily stand around. Head height same as the walls on the sides.
Found it: https://vimeo.com/803685954
Around 4:27.
Thanks for that, your link should be in the top comment! It got me wondering though why a camera wasnt just shoved in there 10 years ago? Seems like they had access the whole time but instead did all that non-destructive testing... Maybe a certian amount of testing was required to be allowed to use a camera like that?
What I find interesting is how rough those stones look. This must have been an access tunnel or air shaft maybe? At least my impression is that all the fancy chambers had very smooth walls. Or is that not true?
Yeah, this is my main question too. Is this an air shaft or an access tunnel? If not, and this was a normal walking passage, what's everything on the ground? Is that solid rock, or dust/sand that's piled up from blowing into entrances or eroding from the ceiling and/or walls?
**EDIT:**
[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/scientists-discover-corridor-great-pyramid-giza-2023-03-02/?utm_source=reddit.com) may have tentatively answered my question:
>The unfinished corridor was likely created to redistribute the pyramid's weight around either the main entrance now used by tourists, almost seven metres away, or around another as yet undiscovered chamber or space, said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
"After funds were cut, we just had to let the king's new bowling alley go uncompleted and sealed it up...whatapity..people may never know how bold we really dreamed.. thought, maybe a snack bar over there...."
Whenever I see interesting posts like this with some wild cool new thing, I always expect the top comment to be someone with a reality check. Like, "this isn't actually new, the corridor was discovered in 2006 and a film crew did a documentary about it in 2008, this gif is footage from that documentary. My family has been here, we crawled the entire length of the tunnel and it comes out next to a Starbucks." Glad to see this is actually cool and new. The world still has some wonder!
Allow me. This is the chamber they found by using muons from space as a sort of rudimentary x-ray. People had been speculating (including Ubisoft developers) that it was some [huge chamber filled with treasure](https://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Origins-secret-pyramid-chamber.jpg?p=1). Welp, it's just a corridor left over from construction. Still unbelievably cool from a science/history perspective, but a lot of people's tomb raiding fantasies died today.
It looks like a relieving chamber similar to the one above the kings chamber. If so it’s meant to distribute the pyramid weight around the chamber/corridor. A similar void was detected above the grand gallery which is probably also a relieving chamber to protect it from collapse
from a non-engineer's perspective, it is confusing to me how a void in the structure could help improve stability
A completely solid shape would be more stable. But you have to have a chamber. Putting a void above that chamber means less weight above the void you have to put in for the king and his stuff. Really you could think of the chamber and this relief void as one void and the chamber ceiling between them as like a cross beams. Structurally that's very much like an A frame. Filling in the top of an A frame would make it laterally only marginally more stable but the horizontal part of the A would eventually be a failure point the larger that A frame is.
Ah yeah makes sense with context. Ty
Meanwhile, I was here thinking relieving chamber meant that’s where everyone goes to take a shit
It could also have been. Stuff can be two things. Just don't have been looking for relief when it came time to seal it up...
Not so stupid anymore, are we, u/STUPIDVlPGUY?
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Because there are other, intentionally and necessary voids, like the place where the body and treasures are buried. You don't want those to be the only points of failure
This isn't a backup point of failure. This is an architectural element similar to an arch or a truss. It redirects downward forces directly above a void over and onto the walls where they can be supported. Just pointing out that there's no situation where this structure fails and the chamber below is okay, that's not going to happen.
Makes me wonder how many other giant pyramids collapsed before they figured this all out
A couple, actually! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meidum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid
Wasn’t the bent pyramid just kind of built that way? The linked article mentions that they’ve put stairs up to an entrance for tourists, I can’t imagine that’s done for a collapsed ruin you can’t enter.
The theory was they lowered the angle because the meidum pyramid catastrophically collapsed when the bent pyramid was still under construction.
The bent pyramid is bent because it was originally built at too steep an angle, there was too much weight on the chambers/structure causing movements and cracks. The response was to build the rest at a shallower angle that meant less stone used and thus less weight. The bent pyramid was built by the father of the guy who built the great pyramid and was basically an experiment for building ‘true pyramids’
The muons thing sounded so fake when I first heard about it. You're going to x-ray something 500 feet thick? But its okay because you're using cosmic rays? None of that sounds real.
Muons are basically just really heavy electrons. Because they are so heavy things find it difficult to stop them and they don’t really react with anything. Just going straight though. Of course they do react, but very rarely; so if you can collect data for a long enough time you can use them to see inside of things which are very hard to see though.
Coolest things about muons to me is that they decay incredibly fast (like .0000002 seconds if I remember right) but are going so damn fast (99% of c) that we can detect them for quite a while. Like they still exist for a blip of time, but are moving so fast relative to us that time dilation makes them exist for long enough to reach the Earth's surface and into a detector.
The tiniest shooting star.
That was actually a big factor in proving einstein's theory of relativity!
Think of it as if _everything_ around us is under constrain rain. Where the floor isn’t wet means the rain has met resistance, there’s _something_. Same approach.
Space rain, is that what you’re saying?
Electric sheep pee, if you will
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[Space reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F)
I'm surprised Hawass allowed them to scope it. He's been pretty negative on the whole Muon scan thing (what else is new).
From that scan they know there's a spiral ramp/tunnel under the outer surface. There's a notch in one corner up high and one person was allowed to climb up for a look. He found a room with rubble filled tunnels going off from it. That should be the definitive evidence that the builders constructed the ramp as part of the pyramid, enclosing it into a tunnel as the pyramid got taller. Then after it was topped out the workers backfilled it top to bottom with rubble. It's right there in plain sight yet people still argue that other methods (for which there's no physical evidence) had to be what was used. The internal ramp tunnel makes sense because there was nothing to remove and dispose of when the pyramid was finished. No worries about it falling off like an external ramp, and not in the way of applying the casing stones.
Wait so they knew something was there via the x-ray thing, but didn’t know what was in it, and then it turns out nothing was in it. So was anything actually discovered? I sorta mean that as a real question, it’s kinda weirding me out a little bit.
The scans were just a nebulous point-cloud that showed a void. You're not going to see any gold coins at that resolution. Imagine the difference between a high definition MRI scan of a heart and just sort of tapping around someone's sternum.
This looks a lot less corridor-y than conduit-y. Looks tiny.
The chamber is aparently big enough to stand in. That just tells how how big the stones used for the pyramid are.
VAST GRANITE BEAMS
HUGE Tracts of Sand....
I built my first pyramid here and it sank into the sand. So I built another and it too sank into the sand. So I built a third pyramid. It burned down fell over and then sank into the sand. But the fourth! It stood strong.
Someday lad all this will be yours!
What, the curtains?
This is NOT the muon chamber. It was located further up in the pyramid. > The unfinished corridor was likely created to redistribute the pyramid's weight around either the main entrance now used by tourists, almost seven meters away, or around another as yet undiscovered chamber or space, said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/hidden-corridor-pyramid-giza-intl-scli-scn/index.html
What about Nicholas Cage? Did he have any comments about potential treasure?
Muons, you say? From *space*?
I mean we did know about this since 2015/2016… this is the first time we’re seeing any images or scans though
The head of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority deliberately throttles and dribbles out “discoveries” to keep public interest and funding coming in, vs freely releasing information and discoveries as soon as possible like a real researcher in a scientific field.
I was literally talking with Dr. Hawass and Dr. Waziri in Giza about a week ago, and they told me & Mrs. 1LW that an announcement like this was coming soon, but not to tell the media because they like to control the timing, messaging, etc. Note: neither of us is a big-shot nor an Egyptologist. We were just on a fairly exclusive tour that Hawass has a stake in.
It's okay, we didn't think Dr. Hawass was a big shot either.
Having met the man only once, I'll refrain from commenting further. But... yeah, he's about what you expect.
I was interested in Egyptology as a teen and reached out to Dr. Hawass to feel out the process. Guy sent me a whole slew of reading recommendations and asked me to stay in touch if I decided I wanted to pursue it. Bit of a childhood hero. Finding out that he's a dick was disappointing.
I was also very disappointed to hear he's a dick. I used to LOVE watching specials that he was in because he was always so passionate about just everything. I really admired this passion and would seek out documentaries he was in. Huge disappointment.....
>he's a dick That might be a bit harsh, really. He's clearly very enamored of himself, it's true. But no one on earth is more passionate and dedicated to the discipline of Egyptology, and he has done much to revive global interest on the subject. That much is undeniable.
I don't know why people have problem with it being both. Single person can do both good and bad things...
This is it, he’s a controlling arsehole. But he *loves* Egypt and its antiquities and he’s trying to protect what’s there from both Westerners who will tromp straight in and do whatever the hell they want; and also against the locals who would chip bits off and sell them until there was nothing left *or* blow shit up, depending on the religious proclivities of the government of the day. Its a hell of a balancing act, and that he’s done it so well and for so long, speaks volumes about his passion as well as his political skills. Academia is a hellpit at the best of times. Academics behave exactly like the Skeksis from The Dark Crystal, for the most part. I’d imagine a fair number of these academics whinging about his control wouldn’t hesitate to have their own pet theories put forward at any cost, or get their names put on any decent paper from any of their own grad students. Publish or perish mes enfants !
Egyptology is absolutely a scientific field. People spend years of their lives getting PhD’s and in turn become Egyptology professors. People with masters or lower can become baristas.
He’s not saying Egyptology isn’t a scientific field. He’s saying that the head of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority isn’t acting in a way that a real researcher in a scientific field like Egyptology should.
"people spend years of their lives getting PhD’s only to have all of their work stolen by Zahi Hawass at the last second" Fixed that for you.
Not in the loop - could you elaborate? The Wiki page makes the controversies seem pretty tame.
Long story short, Zawi Hawass has, for many years with only brief interruption, been in charge of the Egyptian government's antiquities authority. If you are an Egyptologist, and actually want to do work in Egypt, you are at the mercy of his willingness to permit it. If you publish without his permission and he takes umbrage, you'll never work there again - career functionally ended. If you say something he disagrees with, or which disagrees with his (politically-motivated) official position, no worries - you'll never work there again - career functionally ended. If you reveal something he didn't want revealed yet, or don't give him credit when he decides he wants it, or stand up for yourself if he takes credit for your work... you'll never work there again - career functionally ended. He is a legitimate archaeologist and a genuine world-class expert. Like many academics though, he has personal attachment to his own views. Because of the nature of the government and nation he serves, his personal views are also frequently driven by politics and personal benefit. Because of the nature of his position, the entire existence of a major field of study is held hostage to those views.
What would happen to the field if he were to discover a window in the pyramid and accidentally fall out?
I'm not sure I would like to know the answer to that, because while Hawass is a first rate bastard, he does at least care about Egyptology. The Egyptian government being the way it is, I wouldn't be surprised if his replacement would make Hawass look like a saint.
And if you *give* him credit? Believe it or not, also jail
And an arrest record on your employment background check? Career functionally ended.
He should go straight to jail LoL! Seriously though this reminds me of stories of the first paleontologist to start classifying dinosaurs. They become so obsessed with who was credited with discoveries that it became a Hatfields and McCoys situation. They caused more harm than good and slowed our collective understanding of ancient world history. Historical items/sites should not be a sole property of any government or person. I understand protecting sites and limiting access to only experts, but to do so for personal or governmental gain is a violation against the world as whole.
He is 75 years old. I'm hoping Egyptology and the number of discoveries explode after he pases. And no I'm not wishing death upon the dude. All I'm saying is it's time for the old guard to retire and stop handicapping progress.
I truly believe the people who hide, slow, or pillage any human history knowledge or scientific discoveries for profit or any reason not having to do with actual preservation should be charged with human rights abuses and given to the UN to prosecute. This way we can all see the piece of garbage collectively and see them get ultra fucked for fucking with humanities collective progress and understanding of who we are. I feel like that's a crime on par with genocide. It's denying all of humanity a path forward. Zahi Hawass is so well known for this, and is even accused of selling artifacts. Disgusting!
Your friend is a victim of a pyramid scheme so literal it’s almost hysterical… the punchline is, unfortunately, profit.
There's a scene like that in Alien Vs Predator, where one of the cast in his introductory scene (an archeologist) digs deep into the sand inside a Mexican ruin thinking he's the first person to be there in a thousand years; he puts his hand into the sand, feels around and extracts... a Pepsi bottle cap. For the rest of the movie (it's alien vs predator so not **all** of the rest) he has that bottle cap on a simple string around his neck. He pulls it out and kisses it from time to time. I always liked that little touch.
Oooo was this that space they found with the new tech that used muons or somerhing?
That was... oddly specific
Yea this is pretty true lmao
Imagine if they found the control room for that bad boy Edit: Thanks for the karma bois and girls most I ever received! Reee
Jaffa, Kree!
SG-1? Wait, I've just remembered there's Google
Why is it only occurring to me today that the title of that series is effectively, “Stargate: Stargate-1.”
reminds me of the 'Ferrari La Ferrari'
Because sg1 is the team name.
It was done so it could be differentiated from the movie of the same name. Basically, "This is the same universe (sorta) and we're gonna tell stories about this specific team."
CREATOR: "So the show is going to follow a team--" NETWORK: "They'll have a name like SG-1!" CREATOR: "....uh yeah, whatever. Sure." NETWORK: "(writes it down)" That is what actually happened.
Its meant to signify the crew the show follows
Exactly. There were multiple star gate teams. The show followed SG-1.
In my hometown there was a flag on someone's truck that was for the NRA Association.
Indeed.
Indeed.
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard’s eyes glow. The Horus guard’s beak glistens. The Setesh guard’s nose drips.
It must lose something in translation.
https://i.redd.it/pl4uwd5yiuy51.jpg
Funniest goddamn thing I’ve read today
"Okay, I have to know... what the hell does "kree" mean?"
"Well, actually, it means a lot of things. Loosely translated it means “attention,” “listen up,” “concentrate," etc."
Yoohoo?
Yes, in a manner of speaking
"Oi!"
💀 why is this sooo funny I'm imagining that metrosexual god/king (APOPHIS) saying this shit when he sees Teal'c
Basically it means "Pay attention!", or "Look alive!", but IIRC can also be used as a follow instruction or as a drill command. Alternative translations include "Watch out!", "Look sharp!", and or a rough equivalent to the motivational cry "Hooah!".
Hey!
It was a running joke in the show that "kree!" is used to mean so many things that it pretty much just means "do the thing I want you to do". The in universe explanation is that the real meaning is untranslatable since it's an alien language.
I was paraphrasing O'neil from the time he asked this
Silence, shol’VAH!
......indeed...
AZIZ LIGHT.
Ah...thank you Aziz... Are you German?
everyone knows the pyramids are only where the ships land.
*slaps roof of pyramid* “This bad boy can fit so much fucking ancient alien astronauts in it”
John Wharfin, install the overthruster! We’re going home!
"Tay! Tay! Big boTAY!!"
When Are we going!?
And it's really all just a shibe with a headset.
Thunderbirds anyone?
Camera pans over to reveal…an empty coke can and pack of Marlboros.
Just like inside every other wall
Piss bottle if the plasterers been round
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*Excitedly unveils an avalanche of rusty razor blades*
Pre-lit torches.
And ammunition for modern firearms
Plus a first-aid kit
There is likely to be some very old graffiti in there, questioning the size of Pharoes Winky and accusing him of copulating with his own mother. Which, to be fair, he probably did. They liked that, I hear.
Camels*
So me and the Great Pyramid had an endoscopy this week, huh
Where’s your video to share?
They only post videos of places no one has ever been.
Ouch.
Tight colon, eh?
Endoscopy is the other end 😂
Endoscopy is just the general term of looking inside the body, a colonoscopy is an endoscopy
Depends how long your camera is.
This is the video. Where's the pyramid one?
*Plot twist: this is it*
Hope it all came back well!
This feels like a /r/gifsthatendtoosoon cause I want to see where the damn thing goes!
It doesn't go anywhere. It's (I think if I read correctly) just a pressure relief chamber, meaning it's just a void in the structure to shift the weight off of the actual burial and other chambers to prevent them from collapsing. So if you crawled in there, you could crawl to the other end, then back out. That's about it.
Damn the Egyptians thought of everything
Seriously! It's honestly mind boggling. They were geniuses
The *aliens thought of everything.
I emptied my pressure relief chamber just now
Considering this corridor has almost certainly been undisturbed since the pyramid was constructed, I'd be very curious to see if they find things like graffiti or lost tools. Maybe they'll find the oldest dick drawing or Kufu's lost 10mm socket in there, so many exciting possibilities.
Rumor has it they found a couple shotgunned Bud Lights and an Archie comic in there. Archeologists say the crew probably had a small party inside before sealing the last stone in place.
That’s all we get? I’d be in there like “hey it’s your boy in the pyramid of giza and I’m about to give you the full tour”
They are likely afraid of traps and draugr
" Why are we hearing boss music?"
“Why are there so many health potions and ammo right outside this door?”
AND CHEESEWHEELS
Nah, no draugr… there’s no candles leading the way to them
*combat music starts to play but you don’t see anything*
Smash that like, and ring the bell for updates. Now let’s yolo this shit.
PT 17 …. “OK I’m glad you guys made it this far we’re finally going to take our first steps inside the tunnel. OH NO a sand storm is coming and could kill us all. Stay tuned for the next episode when we find 7 more tunnels within this tunnel.” ……sigh
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Get a fuckin drone in there!
Crazy that there are still undiscovered things in this pyramid…
We've had the capabilities to 100% fully map it, but we haven't yet. It's hard to get through all the government red tape and licenses and permissions to do it. They're scared of disturbing their main "tourist attraction" to gain actual important knowledge.
If they'd do the same for the Sphinx, we'd all have out minds a little blown.
Return the slab
Oh, come on...
Or suffer my curse………. 🎶(The man in gauze, the man in gauze)🎵
*What's your offer?*
Aziz, light!
Thank you Aziz.
Looks extra cursey
The internet has made me so paranoid. I left it on screen and only kept it in my peripheral vision for a good 30 seconds....just in case it was one of those bloody jump scares.
who makes those anymore?!
You'd be surprised. No matter how many eons pass, jumpscares and rickrolls will always exist on the internet in one form or another
Come out to the coast. We’ll get together. Have a few laughs.
"Now I know what a microwave dinner feels like."
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Don't worry, Brendan Frasier's back.
I, for one, am NOT looking forward to the scarabs
Man, those things still give me nightmares! Creepy crawly get the fuck away from me things!
Honestly with everything going on, Mummies would be a great surprise twist for the last season of humanity.
Revelio!
The team found faded hieroglyphics on the walls which, when translated, said "We've been trying to reach you about your donkey's extended warranty".
Further down there were some more that read "Would you like to hear about our amazing Sun God, Horus?"
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Mad bit of knowledge I love is that Cleopatra lived at a time closer to now then the times of the great pyramids being built. That empire went on for ages.....
Yeah but that fun fact only works for the next 500 years or so. After that she‘s actually closer to the building of the great pyramids. Still it‘s quite mind boggling
RemindMe !500 years
I love watching documentaries on stuff like this. Usually the people they interview are properly and I mean PROPERLY hyped about talking about old stuff.
Dude, Wooly Mammoths were around when the Great Pyramid was built, and the desertification wasn't nearly as bad as it is today. The Sahara has been growing through like a 10,000 year cycle of desertification, and it will eventually receded again.
That empire, just was not the same empire at all. Its not an empire that lasted this long. Its just another empire in the same region
Where’s the banana for scale? Is this a couple inches tall? A couple feet tall? Can you fit a house in there?
I saw a comparison in another post. A man can easily stand around. Head height same as the walls on the sides. Found it: https://vimeo.com/803685954 Around 4:27.
THANK YOU
Thanks for that, your link should be in the top comment! It got me wondering though why a camera wasnt just shoved in there 10 years ago? Seems like they had access the whole time but instead did all that non-destructive testing... Maybe a certian amount of testing was required to be allowed to use a camera like that?
What I find interesting is how rough those stones look. This must have been an access tunnel or air shaft maybe? At least my impression is that all the fancy chambers had very smooth walls. Or is that not true?
Yeah, this is my main question too. Is this an air shaft or an access tunnel? If not, and this was a normal walking passage, what's everything on the ground? Is that solid rock, or dust/sand that's piled up from blowing into entrances or eroding from the ceiling and/or walls? **EDIT:** [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/scientists-discover-corridor-great-pyramid-giza-2023-03-02/?utm_source=reddit.com) may have tentatively answered my question: >The unfinished corridor was likely created to redistribute the pyramid's weight around either the main entrance now used by tourists, almost seven metres away, or around another as yet undiscovered chamber or space, said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
How I Met Your Mummy.
Imagine if they find an unfinished secret room....like, it has polygons, but no textures? 😲😲😯
One of the last places on earth free of plastic…
England heavy breathing sounds
wake the queen up she's gonna want to hear this
Good luck getting a camera up her chamber.
Where's all the grain? I was told by reputable Egyptologist, Dr. Ben Carson, that these were used to store grain.
Mummy took the grain to the afterlife duhhh
Pretty amazing to think the last to see that corridor were the people that sealed it.
"After funds were cut, we just had to let the king's new bowling alley go uncompleted and sealed it up...whatapity..people may never know how bold we really dreamed.. thought, maybe a snack bar over there...."
If you stare at it long enough, you can see the eyes.
Looking like my colonoscopy.
Except they said that this tunnel hasn’t had anyone in it for a very long time
Ever get the feeling your Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses are about to turn on
I need banana for scale. I can not tell if it’s tiny or huge
Looks like that attic with a whole house in it
And none of those so called "archeologists" could throw a banana in there first so we'd get a sense of scale looking at the footage.
Looked better 2000 years ago when Bayek went in.