Egyptology – Lee Duigon

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I have to go to the nursing home this morning, so let me leave you with this piece of news: for the first time since the 19th century, another big chamber has been discovered inside the Great Pyramid ( https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/great-pyramid-giza-newly-discovered-secret-chamber)–and wouldn’t it be nice if WordPress would let us link to news articles?

State-of-the-art technology revealed the hitherto-undiscovered big empty space inside the pyramid–a kind of X-ray using cosmic ray bombardment. It penetrates stone to show what’s deep inside. Unfortunately, it can’t show what, if anything, is inside the hollow space. Scientists are betting there’s probably nothing in it, that it’s an empty space required by the architecture to relieve the pressure of a zillion tons of stone on other spaces that were used as burial chamber, passageway, etc.

The only way to find out, of course, is to get inside, somehow.

I mean, what if it’s not empty? What if it’s full of… well, mystical secrets? Or treasure? Complete with a curse on it, and everybody who penetrates the secret wakes up in the middle of the night with Christopher Lee standing over his bed and dies a simply horrible death? You know what I mean.

What do you think is inside the secret chamber?

Queen Nefertiti… Is she waiting to be discovered?

When Howard Carter opened Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s intact tomb in 1922, it was the archaeological discovery of the century.

Now some scientists are saying that radar scans indicate that there may be more discoveries, equally sensational, to be made in the same tomb ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/king-tut-tomb-metal-organics_us_56eb7878e4b03a640a6a2228 ).

It should be noted that Zahi Hawass, the dean of Egyptian archaeology, says it’s all a lot of hot air.

But if there were a great discovery to be made, what could it be? Queen Nefertiti’s tomb? She’s famous for a beautiful portrait bust made during her lifetime.

Or could it be the tomb of Ankh-es-en-amen, King Tut’s queen, whose last resting place has yet to be found?

Either way, it would be a spectacular discovery–mummies, treasure, objects of art, and maybe even an answer to the question that still tantalizes Egyptologists–was the boy pharaoh murdered, or did he die of natural causes?

Tut is historically significant because his father, Pharaoh Ikhnaten, tried to impose a monotheistic religion on Egypt, some 3,300 years ago.

I once had a neighbor who said King Tut was secretly living somewhere in his building, but I suppose he was mistaken.

Anyhow, it’s been a very long time since such a splashy discovery was made, and Egypt could certainly use the publicity–not to mention a likely boost in tourism.

Stay tuned for further developments.