A team of scientists announced this week on

arXiv

its intention to carry out a new large-scale mission on the Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt), reports

Geo

.

This study called Explore the Great Pyramid (EGP) aims to use advanced technologies to better understand this building built more than 4,500 years ago.

“Big Void”

Among the questions that remain around the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world still in place, there is in particular the "big void", a cavity about 30 meters long and six meters high.

It was discovered in 2017 under the great gallery of the pyramid by the ScanPyramids mission team.

Its existence had been detected thanks to muography, a technology for detecting cosmic particles making it possible to “scan” a structure in order to determine its hollows and fulls.

At the time, other teams had questioned this finding.

Since then, another smaller cavity has also been discovered.

To confirm their existence and to explore them in more detail, the team of the new EGP mission will therefore use the same technique as the ScanPyramids team.

Scientists plan to use "a 100 times more sensitive telescope system" this time around.

Need for financing

“Using very large muon telescopes placed outdoors allows images to be produced with much better resolution due to the greater number of muons detected,” the team summarized.

The scientists have already obtained the necessary authorizations from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

However, they still have to raise the necessary funds.

Once funded, the study will need four to five years to produce its results.

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