Cairo: Egypt’s antiquities ministry says new radar scans have provided conclusive evidence that there are no hidden rooms inside King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber.
In a statement on Sunday, Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said an Italian team conducted extensive studies with ground-penetrating radar that showed the tomb did not contain any hidden, man-made blocking walls as had been suspected.

In 2015, British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves proposed – using analysis of high-definition laser scans – that queen Nefertiti’s tomb could be concealed behind wall paintings in the famed boy king’s burial chamber.
The latest announcement came a day after Egypt moved the sixth and last chariot of the famed boy king’s vast collection of items to a new museum near the pyramids in Giza.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/mystery-of-hidden-rooms-in-tutankhamun-s-burial-chamber-solved-20180507-p4zdqf.html

They need to do it again with high-definition laser scans.

:)

Tau.Neutrino said:

They need to do it again with high-definition laser scans.

:)

Why?

roughbarked said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

They need to do it again with high-definition laser scans.

:)

Why?

To verify the ground-penetrating radar.

Bit disappointing. The doco gave some good ideas to think that there may be.

AwesomeO said:

Bit disappointing. The doco gave some good ideas to think that there may be.

I don’t know if this will be the last word.

> ground-penetrating radar

Trust that. It fails in wet ground, but Egypt is a place of very dry ground and it should work perfectly there over distances of 5 to 10 metres, even if any rooms behind were completely filled in by collapse.

I wonder where else it would work. A very recent new tomb discovery in the Valley of the Kings had two tombs adjacent to one another. KV 63 and 64. KV 64 was found accidentally while excavating near the entrance of KV63. Although not connected, ground penetrating radar would have helped to find one from the other.

GPR is much more suited to this task than laser scanning. The scanning basically just gives a better idea of the geometry of the known cavities.

dv said:

GPR is much more suited to this task than laser scanning. The scanning basically just gives a better idea of the geometry of the known cavities.

This might actually help me find opalised pockets?

roughbarked said:

dv said:

GPR is much more suited to this task than laser scanning. The scanning basically just gives a better idea of the geometry of the known cavities.

This might actually help me find opalised pockets?

No. resolution is not fine enough. It could be helpful in discerning levels.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

dv said:

GPR is much more suited to this task than laser scanning. The scanning basically just gives a better idea of the geometry of the known cavities.

This might actually help me find opalised pockets?

No. resolution is not fine enough. It could be helpful in discerning levels.

Levels I know but dips in levels are not always easily discerned.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

This might actually help me find opalised pockets?

No. resolution is not fine enough. It could be helpful in discerning levels.

Levels I know but dips in levels are not always easily discerned.

Small dips in levels wouldn’t be shown.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

No. resolution is not fine enough. It could be helpful in discerning levels.

Levels I know but dips in levels are not always easily discerned.

Small dips in levels wouldn’t be shown.

This is where the good opal is.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Levels I know but dips in levels are not always easily discerned.

Small dips in levels wouldn’t be shown.

This is where the good opal is.

I know. That’s why I don’t own a ground penetrating radar.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Levels I know but dips in levels are not always easily discerned.

Small dips in levels wouldn’t be shown.

This is where the good opal is.

Proven by me sinking the jackhammer into the kingstone.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

Small dips in levels wouldn’t be shown.

This is where the good opal is.

I know. That’s why I don’t own a ground penetrating radar.

Fair enough that I won’t be rushing out to purchase.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

This is where the good opal is.

I know. That’s why I don’t own a ground penetrating radar.

Fair enough that I won’t be rushing out to purchase.

The original intent was to be able to find pockets where opal may exist. it wasn’t actually about refining it down to where good opal may happen to be. Previous attempt range from standing naked facing the new moon to dowsing etc.

In all fairness and honesty, my field has been of limited use to opal hunters…

dv said:

In all fairness and honesty, my field has been of limited use to opal hunters…

I actually had five geologists come down my ladder into the chamber, before I found any more than one belmnite. When I asked what did they have to contribute, they all said, we don’t know anything. you will likely be able to see more than what we can see. We look for gold, not opal.