New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb

New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb nature.com

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jamwise11 days ago

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.

toast011 days ago

I've also been watching Stargate (on season 2), it's fun getting to know the Vancouver area as Jack and friends explore the galaxy but always end up in the PNW ;)

Just found this list of filming locatiobs.

https://rdanderson.com/stargate/locations/index.htm

jamwise10 days ago

Yeah very cool filming locations. Also the university they filmed the Tollana planet is where they filmed certain scenes from the new Battlestar Galactica.

nadermx11 days ago

SG1, such a cool premis

SEJeff11 days ago

KREE!

rogerdickey11 days ago

pemis

NooneAtAll311 days ago

sadly, the reboot got cancelled :(

geoduck1411 days ago

Indeed

jamwise10 days ago

Noooooo

emdash11 days ago

And for the dumbest, most Amazon reason possible

tehlike11 days ago

Stargate origins was not a great series, but talks about egypt and stargate :D

drakenot11 days ago

Do you watch the movie as a part of this?

jamwise10 days ago

Loved the movie as a kid, I watched the series also, and am currently rewatching it.

wildzzz13 days ago

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.

GolfPopper11 days ago

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.

AnotherGoodName11 days ago

Incidentally i always found the idea of an explorer grabbing the mysterious jewelled skull and getting cursed similar to the thought exercise of how we warn future cultures about the dangers of long term radioactive waste.

The warning needs to transcend language so you probably think a skull is pretty clear right? Put a big skull there, maybe make it light up or eye catching in some way just to really seal the deal? Surely they understand "don't go near this". Yet in a million years time you're probably going to get some explorer "finding the mysterious and cursed crystal skull" who will subsequently die of "the mysterious curse". It would have made a more interesting ending for that Indiana Jones movie that's for sure.

walrus0111 days ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20150912011810/http://www.wipp.e...

and

https://gwern.net/doc/technology/1993-trauth.pdf

bbor11 days ago

Lol wasn't that the unexpected, quasi-hated part of that movie -- that it did end up being a technological thing rather than another religious artifact? Not criticising your main point, but that's a pretty funny coincidence

SapporoChris11 days ago

A skull might be a warning sign to some people, but it is in no way a universal warning for all people. One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calavera

lawsthro053211 days ago

This is the documentary you seek: Into Eternity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

WarOnPrivacy11 days ago

> The warning needs to transcend language so you probably think a skull is pretty clear right?

I feel that adorning the skull with jewels will puree the "No! No! NO!" message, in any epoch.

ViktorRay11 days ago

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?

Mistletoe11 days ago

Absolutely. Extremely formative to my early years.

dekhn11 days ago

Yes, I do, although I noticed that I had a hard time reading the text, the images were so interesting.

skiing_crawling11 days ago

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.

tastyfreeze11 days ago

Look no further than the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Nothing is allowed to proceed or be published without their sign off.

derektank11 days ago

For anyone doubting this, take a look at Zahi Hawass’s (former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities) response to the ScanPyramids project. From wikipedia,

> On November 2, 2017, the Egyptologist Zahi Hawass told the New York Times: "They found nothing...This paper offers nothing to Egyptology. Zero." Later, once the North Face Corridor was inspected with an Endoscope, Hawass conversely commented that ScanPyramids's work had provided a "major discovery" that would "enter houses and homes of people all over the world for the first time".

pandemic_region11 days ago

Yeah they have no interest in fast revealing everything at once. Egypt's GDP largely depends on these Antiquities so you want to mine them as slow as possible.

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