Egypt Pyramids’ Interiors Can Finally Be Seen After 4600 Years With Cosmic Rays

A team of researchers, including Egyptian, French and Japanese experts, have used a cutting edge technology to make three dimensional maps of the pyramids in Egypt, in a hope to find hidden chambers that have not been yet discovered. The scientists are using cosmic rays for the process, according to reports.

The researchers are taking the help of a specific type of film to capture the track of muons, which are radiographic particles that keep on falling down from the Earth's atmosphere. Since muons pass through vacant paces, but are deflected or absorbed by harder surfaces, the study of film left in a pyramid chamber for many days can provide a 3D simulation of the pyramid's shape along with all the hollow spaces inside.

Called ScanPyramids, the process has until now been applied to the 4,600 years old Bent Pyramid, located towards the south of Cairo. So far, the technique involved in the project has revealed that the creator of this pyramid, Sneferu, is not buried inside a hidden chamber.

"We count the muons and according to their angular distribution we are able to reconstruct an image," said Mehdi Tayoubi from ScanPyramids mission. "For the first time ever, the internal structure of a pyramid was revealed with muon particles. The images obtained distinctly show the second chamber of the pyramid located roughly 60 feet above the lower one in which emulsions plates were installed".

According to the researchers, the project aims to change, confirm, modify or upgrade the numerous hypotheses and theories connected with the construction of pyramids, because until now there is not even one theory that is absolutely proven or checked. The same technique will also be used on two pyramids in Giza and two more in Dashur. For now, the researchers hope to discover the hidden tomb of Nefertiti, the queen consort of 14th century BCE Pharaoh Akhenaten, in Tutankhamen's burial chamber.