Unveiling Khufu’s pyramid secrets using muon tomography
Unveiling Khufu’s pyramid secrets using muon tomography
- Event time: 4:00pm
- Event date: 24th November 2023
- Speaker: Marion Lehuraux (University of Warwick)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The ScanPyramids project aims at scanning the Old Kingdom Egyptian Pyramids to detect the presence of unknown internal voids and structures using non-invasive and non-destructive techniques. In this context, muon tomography led to two major discoveries: the Big Void in 2017, and the North Face Corridor (NFC) that was first detected in 2016 and precisely characterized in 2022. On March 2nd 2023, a news conference was held at the foot of Khufu’s pyramid to reveal live camera footage of the inside of the latter, thus reviving the debate about the pyramid’s construction. This seminar reviews the detector developments that lead to such achievement.
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