New Robots to Explore the Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Giza continues to surprise us with hidden secrets and intriguing anomalies that have yet to be properly investigated. The visual inspection of the North Face Corridor announced on March 2, 2023 is hopefully the beginning of many more revelations to come. The ScanPyramids ‘Big Void’ above the Grand Gallery is now more promising than ever before, but reaching this space will be a significant challenge. Since drilling into the core of the pyramid for 7 meters to reach the Big Void is a daunting proposition, there are other methods of investigation that can occur which are minimally invasive. New soft-bodied robots powered by compressed air have the ability to investigate previously-inaccessible areas of the Great Pyramid. Near the Queen’s Chamber a drilling from 1986 by Gilles Dormion hit a large cavity of anomalous sand that has never been explained. Innovative and inexpensive robots can now easily burrow through this sand to determine the physical parameters of this h