News from the Valley of the Kings

Nick Lerner kindly pointed out  an animation of the work of the Djedi robot in the Great Pyramid which makes it easier to visualise what was seen in the chamber behind the Gantenbrink Door.



There is also a page by Dassault Systèmes.  

(Sorry I know this is off topic but I have a thing about the Great Pyramid and the upside of running a blog is that one can occasionally break one's own rules!)

There doesn't seem to be a definitive version of what the Leeds robot saw behind one of Gantenbrink's Doors in the Great Pyramid.  Coverage seems to have been relegated to the Daily Mail.  I have found two articles which are better than most and which together outline as much as (I think) has been made public.

The first is an article in Discovery News which has a good report of how the Djedi project robot made the journey up the shaft and the future plans for exploration.  It also has a composite image of the floor of the new chamber behind the Gantenbirnk Door at the top of the southern shaft from the Queen's Chamber.

The second report from the Daily Grail reproduces one of the images at greater size and has what seems to be more of a quote from the Djedi team (that's a link to the Hawass blog post at the start of the project).

The situation for ancient sites in Lower Egypt continues to be of concern with two storage warehouses at Giza looted on Monday. I have consolidated the links for the reports onto the Giza page of the Looting Database.  In the first report (NY Times interview), Dr Hawass says he is unable to keep sites safe and is considering resignation.