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?
Simply, because that would involve disassembling them, potentially causing collapse and destroying more than we would find.
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
Because why? The pyramids are not a fun park or escape room, they are a piece of art. How would you feel if we’d tear Mona Lisa apart to check if there’s some older painting below the outside layer and the canvas?
I’m still fascinated by the 20 cm by 20 cm shaft in the Great Pyramid that they sent a robot in to explore: https://www.techexplorist.com/robot-reveals-inside-great-pyramid/30245/
Couldn’t they have found something like that ages ago?..
How on earth is this just happening in 2023. Ultrasound, xrays, whatever. SOMETHING would have shown this cavity.
Surely thats how this void was found in the first place with external measurements. As to why probably struxtural damage and potentially a cavein?
Not sure how old the program was OP watched but they found one void in 2017 using cosmic rays. I’m guessing the pyramids are way too solid for ultrasound or x-ray to work.
https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza
Potentially I suppose. They must be much larger than I anticipate.
The base has a length of 230 meters on each side and the largest interior chamber measures roughly 10 x 5 x 6 meters so yeah, loads of dense solid stone there.
