A team of architects and scientists have found an abnormality in the Egyptian pyramids of Giza.
Higher temperatures were detected by thermal cameras in three adjacent stones at the bottom of the Great Pyramid. Officials have said the likely causes might be the because some areas inside the pyramid are empty, internal air currents, or different building materials used.
A team of architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan used infrared thermography to survey the pyramids during sunrise, as the sun heats the limestone structures from the outside, as well as at sunset when they cool down.
The Antiquities Ministry in Egypt said the experts had "concluded the existence of several thermal anomalies that were observed on all monuments during the heating-up or the cooling-down phases". and that "to explain such anomalies, a lot of hypotheses and possibilities could be drawn up: presence of voids behind the surface, internal air currents."
The minister said, the first row of the pyramid stones are uniformed but there is a difference in formation. Other thermal anomalies are detected in the upper half of the pyramid as well.
The pyramid is to be subjected to further investigations during the Operation Scan Pyramids project, which is expected to start on 25 October through the end of 2016.
Higher temperatures were detected by thermal cameras in three adjacent stones at the bottom of the Great Pyramid. Officials have said the likely causes might be the because some areas inside the pyramid are empty, internal air currents, or different building materials used.
A team of architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan used infrared thermography to survey the pyramids during sunrise, as the sun heats the limestone structures from the outside, as well as at sunset when they cool down.
The Antiquities Ministry in Egypt said the experts had "concluded the existence of several thermal anomalies that were observed on all monuments during the heating-up or the cooling-down phases". and that "to explain such anomalies, a lot of hypotheses and possibilities could be drawn up: presence of voids behind the surface, internal air currents."
The minister said, the first row of the pyramid stones are uniformed but there is a difference in formation. Other thermal anomalies are detected in the upper half of the pyramid as well.
The pyramid is to be subjected to further investigations during the Operation Scan Pyramids project, which is expected to start on 25 October through the end of 2016.
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