ScanPyramids

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The ScanPyramids mission is an international project designed and led by Cairo University and the French HIP Institute (Heritage Innovation Preservation). This project aims at scanning Old Kingdom Egyptian Pyramids (Khufu, Khafre, the Bent and the Red) to detect the presence of unknown internal voids and structures. The project, launched in October 2015, combines several non-invasive and non-destructive techniques which may help to get a better understanding of their structure and their construction processes and techniques. The team was using Infrared thermography, muon tomography, 3D simulation and reconstruction techniques. ScanPyramids is an interdisciplinary project mixing art, science and technology. On November 2, 2017, the ScanPyramids team announced, through a publication in Nature, its third discovery in the Great Pyramid, a "plane-sized" previously unknown void named the "ScanPyramids Big Void".

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