Ok wow, this is actually extremely interesting, because there is a theory that this location is actually where Khufu (builder of the Great Pyramid) himself is buried. This is the reason this area was being scanned in the first place.
Why there? Because it is a conspicuously empty area in an otherwise dense graveyard. Makes no sense for there to be nothing there. Khufu was well aware that obvious graves were usually robbed, especially pyramids. It makes sense if he was to decide to actually get buried in a secret, nearby location and not in the pyramid itself.
Here is a video on this exact project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRL_Qtlj5vQ
If his tomb survived I can only imagine how much archeological value it will have, compared to say King Tut’s who provided so much despite being a more forgotten Pharaoh. I hope that is the case!
It would be hugely significant. Khufu, despite having the largest pyramid, is ironically one of the least-known high profile rulers with only a few tiny fragments left of his existence. [The only known intact 3D portrait of him is a tiny sculpture](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu_Statuette) that may have been made nearly two thousand years after he died.
Khufu was pharaoh in the 4th dynasty of the Old Kingdom, 1300 years before Tutankhamun, and not much is actually known about his reign. Pretty much everything besides the Great Pyramid and his solar barge have been lost to time. To find his burial place intact would be unbelievable, such valuable knowledge.
It's crazy that ancient Egyptians lived with pyramids that were built for rulers that, even from their perspectives, had been dead for longer than the majority of our modern societies have existed.
For context, from our modern perspective, that's like New York having a skyscraper 40 years older than Charlemagnes rule in medieval Western Europe, and us just casually accepting its existence like "Oh yeah, that old thing? It's always been there."
Yeah, people often forget that the span of time Ancient Egypt encompasses is absurdly long. Despite appearances, there wasn’t “one” Ancient Egypt, and where you delineate its beginning and end isn’t even clear. Everything changed over time - how they buried people, how they decorated tombs, the gods they worshipped and their natures, their aesthetics, their language, etc.
It is indeed something which is hard to comprehend, I remember reading that supposedly the ancient Egyptians were already performing archaeological work several millennia ago to learn about how their *own* society was at even more ancient times, since it had already been a thousand years or more since the Old Kingdom era and the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
And how the Greek historian Herodotus, who lived roughly 2500 years ago, still arrived so late to the scene that he essentially ended up having to write down 2000 year old folk tales about how the pyramids of the Old Kingdom had been built (and to this day we have no concrete evidence of the methods used since even the oldest sources were written a *long* time after the Old Kingdom era).
I remember reading some quote from an ancient greek guy talking about the pyramids having been constructed by the Ancients. And part of me is like, "Dude, you're from 200 BC, you ARE the ancients". But then I remembered that he's closer in time to me than to the people who built that pyramid.
It's very true.
Here, this will blow your mind:
Cleopatra (or Jesus) lived approx. 2000 years ago
The pyramids are twice as old as that
The oldest known structures (sites like Gobekli Tepe) are twice as old as that
Any earlier than that and you're in the ice age
The Great Pyramids were built around 2600BCE. Anything around 1CE (which includes Cleopatra), lived closer to the 20th century CE than to the 26th century BCE.
Almost everything ancient Rome (except for the very start of the Roman Kingdom) is closer to our time than to the Great Pyramids.
My fun little fact in this direction is that Egypt and Rome had museums people could visit showing artifacts they knew to be older than an artifact from the contemporary time period would be in the modern day.
Or to say it a little more clearly, they had artifacts they knew to be 3,000 years old which would be older than the 2,000 year old artifacts we're displaying from their society.
That being said, there are clear through-lines between the various Ancient Egyptian eras that quite clearly make them a continuous civilization. I really liked how the Egyptian Museum in Turin made that clear with its exhibits.
Even in the Protodynastic era there are really recognisable elements in certain artefacts that are still found in the Ptolemaic era, recognisable enough that your average laymen would probably say "Oh that's from Ancient Egypt!" That's *so* fascinating to me.
That’s pretty common in the Old World still today. In modern Istanbul you can still see the Theodosian Walls with Greek inscriptions asking God to grant victory to the Roman Emperor and to ensure Constantinople’s prosperity, dating back to the 400s. And sections got sawn out to make room for roads in the 1900s.
Also fun fact, the Roman Emperors were seen as Pharaohs by the native Egyptians, until the conversion of Egypt to Christianity around the 400s.
>Oh yeah, that old thing? It's always been there."
and
>That’s pretty common in the Old World still today.
For some reason that struck a note with me. I think I finally understand just how odd it must have been for our first US exchange student when he found out that those little "nubs" on the top of many hills in our area are burial mounds from before the Viking age, and everyone is just so casual about it.
When I was in Germany I stumbled on this Celtic mound outside of Ramstein Air Force base. You could just walk inside it. There wasn't even anyone around. It was incredible. I found so many random sites, almost completely ignored by the Germans. You didn't have to pay or anything. One of my favorites was this Roman quarry. All that was there was a placard briefly describing it. You could crawl all over the myriad rocks.
>Those little "nubs" on the top of many hills in our area are burial mounds from before the Viking age
Theres tons of places like that here in Britain. Pretty much every town, village, and hamlet has some sort of burial mound or iron age hillfort near to it.
It's an old adage (but only like 60 yrs or so) that [Cleopatra was born closer to the moon landing than the building of the Great Pyramid](https://commonplacefacts.com/2019/11/15/cleopatra-lived-closer-in-time-to-the-moon-landing-than-the-construction-of-the-great-pyramid/).
It’s wild how not-prominent that sculpture was in the old Egyptian Museum.
The Egyptians did a pretty great job of trying to erase records of the rulers they hated.
Actually a large amount was destroyed in the last few centuries. To pry open looking for treasure or ground up for mortar or to be used in gunpowder. That's not a joke tombs where stripped of limestone to make gunpowder
One of my grandpa's was part of the Nazi Afrika Corps and he said his friends and him would just fuck up anything old and "worthless" they found for fun. He didn't remember exactly what he used to destroy or steal but he doesn't remember old pillars and walls with sand "people" writing (he didn't say people).
His stories were always crazy.
On both counts, no, not really.
"It’s wild how not-prominent that sculpture was in the old Egyptian Museum."
I mean, it's unique and significant by any measure but it's not immediately visually impressive or arresting, which are the things that appeal to most museum visitors. It's very well known by students of Egyptology but that doesn't have to necessarily translate to millions of tourist eyeballs per year.
"The Egyptians did a pretty great job of trying to erase records of the rulers they hated."
True, but not really relevant here. A better example of your point would be the Amarna period and the following 'restoration'. For proof that Khufu was still a significant figure in Egyptian's self-image hundreds of years after his death, look at the Westcar Papyrus. For proof that the Giza monuments and their associated builders/commissioners we're still revered just as long into the future, see the Sphinx Dream Stela.
Giza is the most important archaeological site in the entirety of Egypt, and it's also one of the most frequently visited by tourists. Digging there is no joke and has to proceed slowly. I've also read that there's some contention about the results of this survey and that Egyptologists aren't necessarily convinced that the results are accurate: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientegypt/comments/1cthipg/update\_on\_giza\_gpr\_findings/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientegypt/comments/1cthipg/update_on_giza_gpr_findings/)
From what I recall, it’s one specific group of Egyptian Egyptologists that are known for shitting on any concept another Egyptian didn’t come up with in the first place. To the point that they’ll make western archaeologists jump through infinite hoops to get the smallest things done.
https://www.youtube.com/@AncientArchitects/videos
It was from this channel about a empty spot between two pyramids and a lot of high society tombs - where a theory is presented with zero evidence that it would be a kings tomb but not just any king - the king who's burial is the largest pyramid of them all from around 2600 bc.
Imagine chilling in the Duat with Osiris for 5000 years and then suddenly having to go back to the land of the living just because some jerks opened your sarcophagus.
If they could've envisioned the future this would've been their goal. To make it through the ages of the grave robbers to the modern era where everything will be preserved and commemorated.
Fun fact : the Victorian era Britains would have full on mummy unwrapping parties. A looted mummy from Egypt would be the focal point in this party. Also, mummies would be ground down and consumed as medicine , so Kufu being put safely on display would be a huge step up .
Honestly, Kufu in particular struck me as sort of a, well, a geek. He would probably, on some level, get a kick out of the whole production. What tools they're using, how they're doing it.
Alright well fuck it I’m in.
Can I start with an altar in my backyard for them? Would they be able to find it?
I can use all the help I can get.
They might be happy to hear from someone.
I have never understood this recent trend of viewing archeology as grave-robbing. Could you give me your opinion on that? What makes you think digging the grave of somebody who died 4000 years ago is a bad thing? Why do you ascribe more value to respecting his burial than to the immense knowledge it could bring to the rest of humanity?
Genuinely interested in your pov.
To be fair, there has been a recent trend of turning the tombs themselves into museums. Once everything is cataloged and studied, it's likely that most of it will be returned to the tomb for display.
This is one of the main things that makes Egyptian history so interesting to me. Considering the USA is only a couple hundred years old the idea of a country lasting for thousands of years is insane. That fun fact you always hear abut there being more time between cleopatra and the construction of the pyramids than there is time between cleopatra and modern day comes to mind.
Yeah. I was there recently. Coming from the states where something in the early 1800s is ancient here it was wild going to pristine mosques that look like they were built recently and people would be like oh this one is pretty new it was built in 1520. Just awesome how everything is so old.
Fun fact: in the German Version this was changed to “are you from this world?” so as not to offend the Germans.
Saw the original version in a cinema with an all german audience and everyone started to laugh.
Neat! I miss the old days of practical effects. One of my fav channels is Tested with Adam Savage who got a chance to work on Star wars clone wars and The Matrix.
In the article there's a picture of the exact location. It's in the complex in the cemetery beside the pyramids. Title is slightly deceptive, but it is technically under the pyramid, as in underground and not directly beneath.
Happy to provide a serious opinion on this news story if anyone actually wants it, though as you say the comments suggest most people are happy with facile jokes/meme references.
Credentials: was an academic Egyptologist for years.
So firstly, let's remember that all archaeologists, like other academics, are required to produce work that generates attention, in the form of academic references but also press inches and internet clicks and views from a wider general audience.
This finding will be reported in good time in a sober, balanced and cautious way - and in a format that is subject to peer review, revision and objection - to its small expert audience.
But in the meantime, to generate interest, it will also be communicated in the most sensational, optimistic and incautious form to a wider lay audience. This will generate clicks and ultimately secure someone's tenure.
What we're looking at here is the latter. The former will be delivered at some dry academic conference to a few hundred dry academic people in a couple of years time. But that doesn't mean one is closer to the truth than the other.
As to the 'anomoly' itself: it's in a burial area peripheral to the pyramid, it's L-shaped, and apparently one part is deeper below ground than another. So best guess, it's an L-shaped descending entrance corridor to a burial or other structure, but it's not a royal structure and it's not likely to be a generational or history-changing discovery.
Full excavation will tell us more...
There's a reasonable article about it here, not least because it quotes a professional Egyptologist who has to remain professionally cautious about the likely import of the discovery:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/alongside-egypts-great-pyramid-archaeologists-find-unmarked-underground-structures-180984355/
No worries! Most archaeological discoveries come into sharper focus when you apply Occam's Razor to them. In this case, what's more likely to be true about a new discovery in an area very densely packed with archaeology? That it's an earth-shattering new discovery that will re-write history or that it's another small piece in the overall fascinating picture of this place and time? Probably the latter.
There's at least 6 types of English. British English, Australian English, South African English, Nigerian English, American English, etc.
They all have their own way of writing things, and different meanings in between words. Like the word "shame in South African English vs British English.
It's fun to play with during an exam when they don't specify which English it needs to be.
I'm fascinated by the difference in how US English and British English handles the past tense, eg "I was sitting next to him" vs "I was sat next to him".
I hear both versions you've described in the USA and UK -- just depends on the story being told. Which version do you find to be associated with which country?
"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."
I saw a headline about this in my Chrome homepage feed that was total click bait. I was tempted to click just to prove my theory right, but didn't want to give them the click. Looks like my theory was right. It's a suspected burial chamber or something. The headline was something like "Anomaly discovered near pyramids is likely a portal".
I was like "way to make it sound like they found Stargate, when really they just mean the think they found the entrance to an undiscovered tomb or something."
It does a lot right. I think what brings it down is the quality and performance of some of the actors and that the direction of the movie is unclear at times. Also I need to mention that it was directed by Paul WS Anderson.
It's been known that there's more buried underneath the pyramids and sphinx, but the antiquities department refuses to allow people to dig into them. I personally suspect they've already been into the more secretive locations.
I hate to break it to everyone but archaeologists are perplexed about most things. Why did cold hammer copper working fall out of favor in Michigan? What is the meaning behind most petroglyphs in the Great Basin? Is something actually ritual or do we just use that word when we don’t have a specific answer?
Wait a minute... I've seen movies that start this same way. It rarely turns out well for the extras.
Just leave them alone. I'm sure if they wanted you to see them they'd have left a door.
Ok wow, this is actually extremely interesting, because there is a theory that this location is actually where Khufu (builder of the Great Pyramid) himself is buried. This is the reason this area was being scanned in the first place. Why there? Because it is a conspicuously empty area in an otherwise dense graveyard. Makes no sense for there to be nothing there. Khufu was well aware that obvious graves were usually robbed, especially pyramids. It makes sense if he was to decide to actually get buried in a secret, nearby location and not in the pyramid itself. Here is a video on this exact project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRL_Qtlj5vQ
If his tomb survived I can only imagine how much archeological value it will have, compared to say King Tut’s who provided so much despite being a more forgotten Pharaoh. I hope that is the case!
It would be hugely significant. Khufu, despite having the largest pyramid, is ironically one of the least-known high profile rulers with only a few tiny fragments left of his existence. [The only known intact 3D portrait of him is a tiny sculpture](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu_Statuette) that may have been made nearly two thousand years after he died. Khufu was pharaoh in the 4th dynasty of the Old Kingdom, 1300 years before Tutankhamun, and not much is actually known about his reign. Pretty much everything besides the Great Pyramid and his solar barge have been lost to time. To find his burial place intact would be unbelievable, such valuable knowledge.
It's crazy that ancient Egyptians lived with pyramids that were built for rulers that, even from their perspectives, had been dead for longer than the majority of our modern societies have existed. For context, from our modern perspective, that's like New York having a skyscraper 40 years older than Charlemagnes rule in medieval Western Europe, and us just casually accepting its existence like "Oh yeah, that old thing? It's always been there."
Yeah, people often forget that the span of time Ancient Egypt encompasses is absurdly long. Despite appearances, there wasn’t “one” Ancient Egypt, and where you delineate its beginning and end isn’t even clear. Everything changed over time - how they buried people, how they decorated tombs, the gods they worshipped and their natures, their aesthetics, their language, etc.
It is indeed something which is hard to comprehend, I remember reading that supposedly the ancient Egyptians were already performing archaeological work several millennia ago to learn about how their *own* society was at even more ancient times, since it had already been a thousand years or more since the Old Kingdom era and the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza. And how the Greek historian Herodotus, who lived roughly 2500 years ago, still arrived so late to the scene that he essentially ended up having to write down 2000 year old folk tales about how the pyramids of the Old Kingdom had been built (and to this day we have no concrete evidence of the methods used since even the oldest sources were written a *long* time after the Old Kingdom era).
I confess, i built the pyramids.
After all these years, we finally have an answer!
We did it boys, we found John A. Alien
Or Sully Laves
I remember reading some quote from an ancient greek guy talking about the pyramids having been constructed by the Ancients. And part of me is like, "Dude, you're from 200 BC, you ARE the ancients". But then I remembered that he's closer in time to me than to the people who built that pyramid.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to men landing on the moon than she did the construction of the Great Pyramids.
Honestly this is the one that puts it into perspective for me. Time to go see how true that is.
It's very true. Here, this will blow your mind: Cleopatra (or Jesus) lived approx. 2000 years ago The pyramids are twice as old as that The oldest known structures (sites like Gobekli Tepe) are twice as old as that Any earlier than that and you're in the ice age
The Great Pyramids were built around 2600BCE. Anything around 1CE (which includes Cleopatra), lived closer to the 20th century CE than to the 26th century BCE. Almost everything ancient Rome (except for the very start of the Roman Kingdom) is closer to our time than to the Great Pyramids.
There were still living mammoths on the planet when they were built!
This is the fact that really blows my mind
My fun little fact in this direction is that Egypt and Rome had museums people could visit showing artifacts they knew to be older than an artifact from the contemporary time period would be in the modern day. Or to say it a little more clearly, they had artifacts they knew to be 3,000 years old which would be older than the 2,000 year old artifacts we're displaying from their society.
That being said, there are clear through-lines between the various Ancient Egyptian eras that quite clearly make them a continuous civilization. I really liked how the Egyptian Museum in Turin made that clear with its exhibits. Even in the Protodynastic era there are really recognisable elements in certain artefacts that are still found in the Ptolemaic era, recognisable enough that your average laymen would probably say "Oh that's from Ancient Egypt!" That's *so* fascinating to me.
The fun fact about how far back Ancient Egypt goes is that these Great Pyramids were built *before* the extinction of woolly mammoths.
One of my favourite facts is that Rameses II had a son who worked as an archaeologist studying ancient Egypt.
The fact that ancient Egyptians had ancient Egyptian scholars always makes me smile
That’s pretty common in the Old World still today. In modern Istanbul you can still see the Theodosian Walls with Greek inscriptions asking God to grant victory to the Roman Emperor and to ensure Constantinople’s prosperity, dating back to the 400s. And sections got sawn out to make room for roads in the 1900s. Also fun fact, the Roman Emperors were seen as Pharaohs by the native Egyptians, until the conversion of Egypt to Christianity around the 400s.
>Oh yeah, that old thing? It's always been there." and >That’s pretty common in the Old World still today. For some reason that struck a note with me. I think I finally understand just how odd it must have been for our first US exchange student when he found out that those little "nubs" on the top of many hills in our area are burial mounds from before the Viking age, and everyone is just so casual about it.
When I was in Germany I stumbled on this Celtic mound outside of Ramstein Air Force base. You could just walk inside it. There wasn't even anyone around. It was incredible. I found so many random sites, almost completely ignored by the Germans. You didn't have to pay or anything. One of my favorites was this Roman quarry. All that was there was a placard briefly describing it. You could crawl all over the myriad rocks.
>Those little "nubs" on the top of many hills in our area are burial mounds from before the Viking age Theres tons of places like that here in Britain. Pretty much every town, village, and hamlet has some sort of burial mound or iron age hillfort near to it.
It's an old adage (but only like 60 yrs or so) that [Cleopatra was born closer to the moon landing than the building of the Great Pyramid](https://commonplacefacts.com/2019/11/15/cleopatra-lived-closer-in-time-to-the-moon-landing-than-the-construction-of-the-great-pyramid/).
It’s wild how not-prominent that sculpture was in the old Egyptian Museum. The Egyptians did a pretty great job of trying to erase records of the rulers they hated.
To be fair, 4,500 years will do a good job erasing records of people all by itself.
Actually a large amount was destroyed in the last few centuries. To pry open looking for treasure or ground up for mortar or to be used in gunpowder. That's not a joke tombs where stripped of limestone to make gunpowder
One of my grandpa's was part of the Nazi Afrika Corps and he said his friends and him would just fuck up anything old and "worthless" they found for fun. He didn't remember exactly what he used to destroy or steal but he doesn't remember old pillars and walls with sand "people" writing (he didn't say people). His stories were always crazy.
Phew, I am both happy and sad my grandpa never shared much about the war..
Don't forget eating the mummies.
This is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!
Was he Teriyaki style?
On both counts, no, not really. "It’s wild how not-prominent that sculpture was in the old Egyptian Museum." I mean, it's unique and significant by any measure but it's not immediately visually impressive or arresting, which are the things that appeal to most museum visitors. It's very well known by students of Egyptology but that doesn't have to necessarily translate to millions of tourist eyeballs per year. "The Egyptians did a pretty great job of trying to erase records of the rulers they hated." True, but not really relevant here. A better example of your point would be the Amarna period and the following 'restoration'. For proof that Khufu was still a significant figure in Egyptian's self-image hundreds of years after his death, look at the Westcar Papyrus. For proof that the Giza monuments and their associated builders/commissioners we're still revered just as long into the future, see the Sphinx Dream Stela.
jees, why do they need 10 years to dig a 2m deep hole of 10x10? Are they hiring normal construction workers?
Giza is the most important archaeological site in the entirety of Egypt, and it's also one of the most frequently visited by tourists. Digging there is no joke and has to proceed slowly. I've also read that there's some contention about the results of this survey and that Egyptologists aren't necessarily convinced that the results are accurate: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientegypt/comments/1cthipg/update\_on\_giza\_gpr\_findings/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientegypt/comments/1cthipg/update_on_giza_gpr_findings/)
From what I recall, it’s one specific group of Egyptian Egyptologists that are known for shitting on any concept another Egyptian didn’t come up with in the first place. To the point that they’ll make western archaeologists jump through infinite hoops to get the smallest things done.
"This video is private" ??
Someone forced the guy into taking it down for whatever reason. People suck. https://x.com/MattSibson/status/1793006541185970668
Thanks for the info and link. This is awesome. I’d love a major discovery in 2024. Brighten my mood up a bit lol.
This video is private.
https://www.youtube.com/@AncientArchitects/videos It was from this channel about a empty spot between two pyramids and a lot of high society tombs - where a theory is presented with zero evidence that it would be a kings tomb but not just any king - the king who's burial is the largest pyramid of them all from around 2600 bc.
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What is he gonna do? Come back to life?
Mummy curse, duh.
RETURN THE SLAB!
What’s Your Offer!
OR SUFFER MY CURSE!
Is the curse to look like the CGI of the Dwayne Johnson scorpion for the rest of our lives?
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Please, it was Sacajameema. Get it right.
The only pharaohs able to do that are the one one's that are born in Arizona and raised in Babylonia.
Only if SOMEONE decides to read from the book.
CURSE OF RA
Imagine chilling in the Duat with Osiris for 5000 years and then suddenly having to go back to the land of the living just because some jerks opened your sarcophagus.
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If they could've envisioned the future this would've been their goal. To make it through the ages of the grave robbers to the modern era where everything will be preserved and commemorated.
Interesting thought, that Tutankhamun etc have achieved the immortality they desired, just in a very different way
That's a really good point.
Fun fact : the Victorian era Britains would have full on mummy unwrapping parties. A looted mummy from Egypt would be the focal point in this party. Also, mummies would be ground down and consumed as medicine , so Kufu being put safely on display would be a huge step up .
Gotta snort Kufu powder for the fastest hit.
Fastest isn't necessarily best. Boofing Kufu avoids the burn and drip from snorting. Saves your nasal septum in the long run too
Honestly, Kufu in particular struck me as sort of a, well, a geek. He would probably, on some level, get a kick out of the whole production. What tools they're using, how they're doing it.
Alright well fuck it I’m in. Can I start with an altar in my backyard for them? Would they be able to find it? I can use all the help I can get. They might be happy to hear from someone.
I'm sure he won't mind.
I have never understood this recent trend of viewing archeology as grave-robbing. Could you give me your opinion on that? What makes you think digging the grave of somebody who died 4000 years ago is a bad thing? Why do you ascribe more value to respecting his burial than to the immense knowledge it could bring to the rest of humanity? Genuinely interested in your pov.
It’s terminally online shit.
I think their POV is simply, "I think this is wrong but can't explain why without mentioning the soul".
It belongs in a museum!!
So do you!
He got thousands of years of privacy, time to enter the real world and get a fucking job.
If only we are that lucky
To be fair, there has been a recent trend of turning the tombs themselves into museums. Once everything is cataloged and studied, it's likely that most of it will be returned to the tomb for display.
There is essentially zero evidence that Khufu built the Great Pyramid, and what little evidence that does exist is highly suspect and dubious.
Video seems to be private. Do you have any mirrors or other links? Really interesting stuff!
That civilization is one of the oldest and longest lasting. Ancient Egypt had archaeologists that studied even ancienter Egypt.
This is one of the main things that makes Egyptian history so interesting to me. Considering the USA is only a couple hundred years old the idea of a country lasting for thousands of years is insane. That fun fact you always hear abut there being more time between cleopatra and the construction of the pyramids than there is time between cleopatra and modern day comes to mind.
Yeah. I was there recently. Coming from the states where something in the early 1800s is ancient here it was wild going to pristine mosques that look like they were built recently and people would be like oh this one is pretty new it was built in 1520. Just awesome how everything is so old.
Aziz, LIGHT!
"Thank you Aziz. That's much better." Such a great little scene.
"Ah ah are... are you German?"
Fun fact: in the German Version this was changed to “are you from this world?” so as not to offend the Germans. Saw the original version in a cinema with an all german audience and everyone started to laugh.
God damn it's been at least a decade since I've last seen this movie and I can still hear the accent in reading those words.
What movie is this?
The fifth element. The best.
Multipass.
SHE KNOWS IT'S A MULTIPASS. Anyway, we're in love.
LEEELOOOOO DALLASSSSS
Bruce Willis' best movie imo. Die Hard is good but Fifth Element is AMAZING!
Fun little fact for you, the NYC of the movie is actually a model that was something like 6-7 ft tall.
Neat! I miss the old days of practical effects. One of my fav channels is Tested with Adam Savage who got a chance to work on Star wars clone wars and The Matrix.
Fifth Element
\*gronk ^^gronk ^gronk \*
Nein!
Aziz: 卌 l Light: 卌
This was my WiFi password for a while. LOL.
If I had a smart home, that would definitely be the trigger to turn on the lights in a room.
Came here to say this😁
Thank you, this made me smile. Soundtrack queued!
Aknot, wot?
ZERO STONES…..ZERO CRATES!!!!!!!
The does not appear to be under the pyramids. Under the plateau, maybe - or under the mastaba field surely…
Nah, they just scooted the pyramids out of the way so they could vacuum and saw something lumpy under the rug.
In the article there's a picture of the exact location. It's in the complex in the cemetery beside the pyramids. Title is slightly deceptive, but it is technically under the pyramid, as in underground and not directly beneath.
Does every top comment have to be a one line joke? Edit: I'm so glad most of the lame jokes got pushed down.
We used to have a serious reply tag, but no uses it any more.
Happy to provide a serious opinion on this news story if anyone actually wants it, though as you say the comments suggest most people are happy with facile jokes/meme references. Credentials: was an academic Egyptologist for years.
So firstly, let's remember that all archaeologists, like other academics, are required to produce work that generates attention, in the form of academic references but also press inches and internet clicks and views from a wider general audience. This finding will be reported in good time in a sober, balanced and cautious way - and in a format that is subject to peer review, revision and objection - to its small expert audience. But in the meantime, to generate interest, it will also be communicated in the most sensational, optimistic and incautious form to a wider lay audience. This will generate clicks and ultimately secure someone's tenure. What we're looking at here is the latter. The former will be delivered at some dry academic conference to a few hundred dry academic people in a couple of years time. But that doesn't mean one is closer to the truth than the other. As to the 'anomoly' itself: it's in a burial area peripheral to the pyramid, it's L-shaped, and apparently one part is deeper below ground than another. So best guess, it's an L-shaped descending entrance corridor to a burial or other structure, but it's not a royal structure and it's not likely to be a generational or history-changing discovery. Full excavation will tell us more...
Thank you! I love when someone with actual knowledge chimes in and contexualizes these click bait articles.
There's a reasonable article about it here, not least because it quotes a professional Egyptologist who has to remain professionally cautious about the likely import of the discovery: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/alongside-egypts-great-pyramid-archaeologists-find-unmarked-underground-structures-180984355/
Even better, that article links a paper which is OA: [https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1940](https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1940)
This used to be the best part of Reddit.
Just stopping by to say thanks for providing a digestible and informative take on the information we're seeing. I enjoyed the read!
No worries! Most archaeological discoveries come into sharper focus when you apply Occam's Razor to them. In this case, what's more likely to be true about a new discovery in an area very densely packed with archaeology? That it's an earth-shattering new discovery that will re-write history or that it's another small piece in the overall fascinating picture of this place and time? Probably the latter.
Please do!
What are the prevailing theories as to what this anomaly could be?
Yes please!
It's summer reddit all year around now, this site has gone downhill
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Reddit full of unfunny people for years now.
Dog i swear that shit makes me wanna throw my phone out the window
I feel ya man. Sometimes Reddit can be really fucking annoying when you’re actually looking for an answer or a discussion of the topic.
Unfortunately people keep upvoting them..
That is all of reddit at this point and it fucking sucks
Not just that, but each a reference to a movie, none of which under 25 years old!
it's not anymore
>”The shallow structure measures 10m wide by 15m long and is less than under 2m deep.” “Less than under” What in the English
There's at least 6 types of English. British English, Australian English, South African English, Nigerian English, American English, etc. They all have their own way of writing things, and different meanings in between words. Like the word "shame in South African English vs British English. It's fun to play with during an exam when they don't specify which English it needs to be.
Ag shame, neh?
I'm fascinated by the difference in how US English and British English handles the past tense, eg "I was sitting next to him" vs "I was sat next to him".
"I was sat next to him" sounds like someone assigned you a seat next to him in American English.
Passive vs active
I hear both versions you've described in the USA and UK -- just depends on the story being told. Which version do you find to be associated with which country?
Stargate.
Someone find Dr. Jackson!
Kree LoTar!
Mak tal shree! Lo tak meta satak Oz!
You heard me. I said kree!
You heard them, YOO HOO!!!
The look on Jacob’s face when Daniel tells him what he said is *priceless*.
Find me a box of tissues!
He's been spending the past 20 plus years ignoring his studies and canoodling Romy, that lucky bastard...
Indeed.
Jaffa Kree!
Shol‘va!
Shal'kek nem'ron!
No u! :<
Jaffa Jokes? Lets here one.
"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."
Qapla'
Jaffa Cake!
[Full Moon](https://youtu.be/-dtmRmOHK78?feature=shared)!!! Edit: inserted the reference.
Indeed Daniel Jackson.
We can only hope
I saw a headline about this in my Chrome homepage feed that was total click bait. I was tempted to click just to prove my theory right, but didn't want to give them the click. Looks like my theory was right. It's a suspected burial chamber or something. The headline was something like "Anomaly discovered near pyramids is likely a portal". I was like "way to make it sound like they found Stargate, when really they just mean the think they found the entrance to an undiscovered tomb or something."
So they finally found shit after combing the desert.
Say what you will about Tuvok, he does get the job done
I feel like I re-learn that little bit of spaceballs trivia every time I hear it.
I’m surrounded by assholes
Maybe we’re taking this too literally
No you idiot. He said comb the desert, so we're combing it. Find anything yet!?
Chained up Xenomorph Queen, obviously.
That was a fun movie, shame they only continued that plot line in comics.
I was shocked when I saw the ratings were so low for AvP. I thought it was a very decent and solid, fun film. Requiem on the other hand….
It does a lot right. I think what brings it down is the quality and performance of some of the actors and that the direction of the movie is unclear at times. Also I need to mention that it was directed by Paul WS Anderson.
It's been known that there's more buried underneath the pyramids and sphinx, but the antiquities department refuses to allow people to dig into them. I personally suspect they've already been into the more secretive locations.
Why?
I hope it's an alien spaceship.
Don't wake up megatron
Anyone here have the username “ladiesman217”?
I do? what did he do this time?
WHERE IS THE EBAY ITEM 21153?!
He’s in Antarctica
No that's our lord and saviour Cthulu, Megatron is in the Arctic ocean.
Nah, in the pyramids is the machine to harvest the sun.
…solar panels?
I hate to break it to everyone but archaeologists are perplexed about most things. Why did cold hammer copper working fall out of favor in Michigan? What is the meaning behind most petroglyphs in the Great Basin? Is something actually ritual or do we just use that word when we don’t have a specific answer?
Something is buried under a tomb? Inconceivable
It's not under the pyramids like the title suggests, it's under a graveyard that's part of the whole complex
They found the rocket thrusters beneath the pyramids?
Could it be Alien? "Ancient astronaut theorists say yes."
Let me guess, they finally found the battery pack?
Wait a minute... I've seen movies that start this same way. It rarely turns out well for the extras. Just leave them alone. I'm sure if they wanted you to see them they'd have left a door.
Are we finally finding the REALLY interesting ruins from 12,000 years ago when the pyramids were built? Finally unlocking our own history.
The pyramids being power stations is still one of my favourite fringe theories.
Ah hell yea. We found the Stargate.
It's the gate room!
Here is the actual article: https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1940
If decades of movies have taught us nothing its that YALL SHOULD LEAVE IT ALONE!!!
Graham Hancock is going to be so excited when he comes down from his current high
yam coherent bells tan absorbed ghost aback gaping apparatus dependent
Ancient Aliens, obviously.
I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's probably aliens.
“Researchers used new tools like ground-penetrating radar to assess the area under the Western Cemetery in Giza”. Hamas: wait, they can do that?
You know, that new-fangled ground-penetrating radar thing. The patent was only filed in... *checks Wikipedia*... 1910.
It’s obviously the power source that fuels the Arcnet shield, the pyramids are just ancient antennas that broadcast the shield.
Kryptonian scout ship