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Riddles of the pyramids What secrets are still hidden by the Egyptian pyramids?

Gold and copper mines, Akjouzht, MauritaniaThis Earthview image shows copper mines and gold mines near the Akjoujt minin...
09/10/2020

Gold and copper mines, Akjouzht, Mauritania
This Earthview image shows copper mines and gold mines near the Akjoujt mining town in Mauritania.

The sand here has a bluish color - this is due to the oxidized upper layers of the copper ore deposit.

As you know, in the open air, copper oxidizes, and the resulting copper carbonate resulting from this chemical reaction gives the mineral a blue or green hue.

Artificial island IJsselmeer, NetherlandsIn the center of Lake Ketelmeer in the Netherlands, there is an artificial isle...
09/10/2020

Artificial island IJsselmeer, Netherlands
In the center of Lake Ketelmeer in the Netherlands, there is an artificial islet with a reservoir.

Known as the IJsselmeer, this rounded island measuring one kilometer in diameter was built to collect and clean up toxic waste that has entered the lake in large quantities from river tributaries over the past decades.

By removing contaminated silt from the bottom, the Ketelmeer and the Ijssel River flowing into it remain deep enough to be used for navigation by small waterways.
The creation of a network of waterways in this region became possible thanks to the efforts of the Dutch to reclaim land from the sea.

Plots of artificially reclaimed land, called polders in the Netherlands, form islands that can only be reached by bridge.

They serve as protection from rising sea levels - about a third of the country lies below this level, so without man-made dunes and dams, 65% of its territory would be under water at high tide.

Irrigation System, El Jawf, LibyaThe Libyan city of Al Jawf is located in the Sahara Desert, and its water supply is alm...
06/10/2020

Irrigation System, El Jawf, Libya
The Libyan city of Al Jawf is located in the Sahara Desert, and its water supply is almost entirely dependent on irrigation.

In the Earthview photograph, we see hexagons carved into the desert surface; they are a group of irrigated agricultural oases; some of these areas are 1 km in diameter.

Stevenson says this veil of mystery has surrounded the pyramids since time immemorial."They have amazed us for centuries...
01/10/2020

Stevenson says this veil of mystery has surrounded the pyramids since time immemorial.

"They have amazed us for centuries," she says. "This is a feature of the monuments: they are experienced by many generations of people."

And yet, even this high-tech expedition allowed us to look out of the corner of our eye at the contents of the hidden ch...
01/10/2020

And yet, even this high-tech expedition allowed us to look out of the corner of our eye at the contents of the hidden chamber of Khufu's pyramid.

Until scientists make some kind of research breakthrough, we still won't know if there are other secret rooms in the Egyptian pyramids.

Message to the futureIn the coming years, scanners and sensors are likely to remain the main tools for pyramid researche...
28/09/2020

Message to the future
In the coming years, scanners and sensors are likely to remain the main tools for pyramid researchers.

Infrared images taken by satellites from orbit have revealed pyramids buried under the sand - so this kind of advanced technology can really help us learn more about these mysterious structures.

Robots can also be helpful. One of the rooms in the Khufu pyramid, where people cannot enter, was explored by a machine four years ago.

In this pyramid from the queen's chamber, a mysterious narrow shaft leads to the "secret room".

It has been known about it since 2002: then the robot drilled the stone door covering it and filmed the room behind it. But in these shots, we managed to make out little.

In 2011, another, more perfect mechanism went for exploration: strange red hieroglyphs that have been hidden from the world for the last three millennia are visible on the frames he transmitted.

Do not touchWhy are there still such alternative theories about the pyramids? And how did it happen that we still haven'...
23/09/2020

Do not touch
Why are there still such alternative theories about the pyramids? And how did it happen that we still haven't fully explored them?

The pyramids of Giza, with their secret rooms and corridors, keep unsolved secrets to this day. Why have researchers sti...
16/09/2020

The pyramids of Giza, with their secret rooms and corridors, keep unsolved secrets to this day. Why have researchers still not been able to find clues to all of their mysteries? The BBC Future correspondent decided to figure it out .

"Finally made a wonderful discovery in the Valley. Found a wonderful tomb with intact seals filled up again before your arrival, congratulations," Howard Carter hastily wrote in a telegram to England, summoning his companion George Herbert, who financed the excavation, to the site.

It was 1922, and Carter had just found a magnificently preserved tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The discovery of Tutankhamun's treasures instantly became a worldwide sensation.

Tutankhamun himself was not buried in a pyramid, but in the pyramids, as you know, the tombs of other kings were located, and therefore many began to wonder: what if hitherto undiscovered premises are hiding in these gigantic buildings?

However, despite the fact that the pyramids have stood in the desert for thousands of years, we know quite a bit about their internal structure.

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