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Makes sense, the king dies unexpectedly, you need a tomb real quick. It probably takes years to dig these tombs and that's assuming you've found a suitable place to dig. You pick an existing tomb of a less popular ruler, wall of some sections (but maybe leave the artifacts?), renovate the new main chamber for him, and put a new name out front.
It's like those dilapidated buildings in NYC where the ground floor is some store but everything upstairs is basically uninhabitable decay. The store makes enough rental income to justify not renovating the upper floors into something actually usable.
I feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they're hiding aliens. i'm exhausted.
In the related articles sidebar there is an article from 2020:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y
What is the physical limitation that prevents a very big metal detector from telling us if there’s gold or other signatures?
The balancing act between Egyptian tourism mystery golden goose eggs, and just cutting the pyramid in half.
This is a good question and there is a real practical answer. The tomb is not in a Pyramid but deep in a mountain reachable by a narrow stairway. You'd have to cut away or dig through the mountain to come close enough for a metal detector.
Or just stand on the other side of the wall?
The 10 year old inside me is so incredibly excited. My actual 10 year old self was obsessed with tombs and ancient Egypt. I remember a whole summer I couldn't stop thinking about and talking about the "Sphinx on the face of Mars". Thankfully these days I have friends, but I have been rewatching all of Stargate so this is very timely.
SG1, such a cool premis
So they're saying there's one tomb, that seems very real, that conceals a hidden entrance to another, larger tomb complex?
Okay, sure, explore away. But I'm not coming along, and if you find any jeweled skulls don't touch them.
this would have been a fun headline 20 years ago but as technology has improved, it's getting more and more absurd that we don't just have multiple datasets from different imaging methods of the whole entire structure.
I have fond memories of reading National Geographic magazine growing up. I remember they had memorable issues with King Tut. And Ancient Egypt in general. Made me fall in love with learning about Ancient Egypt.
Anyone else here have fond memories of reading those old National Geographic issues?
https://archive.is/Iw0JJ