The « ScanPyramids » Project Launch to Crack the Secret of the Biggest Egyptian Pyramids

Cairo (ots/PRNewswire) -

The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities is pleased to announce the
launch of an egyptian - international Project using non-invasive and
non-destructive surveying techniques for the scanning of Egyptian
Pyramids under the title "ScanPyramids" project.

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Just because a mystery is 4500 years old doesn't mean it can't be
solved..." This could be the motto of the exceptional scientific
mission launched October 25, 2015, under the authority of the
Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, initiated, designed and coordinated
by the Faculty of Engineering of Cairo and the French HIP.Institute
(Heritage, Innovation and Preservation). Radiographic muons, aka
cosmic particles, infrared thermography, photogrammetry, scanner and
3D reconstruction: the most innovative technologies will be used by
researchers of international renown and three major universities: the
Faculty of Engineering of Cairo University, Université Laval of
Quebec and Nagoya University of Japan. Their goal: to probe the heart
of the largest pyramids of Egypt, without drilling the slightest
opening.

The scientific mission "Scan Pyramids" is an unprecedented,
large-scale project and will begin early November. It will focus on
four masterpieces of the Fourth Dynasty (2575-2465): on the site of
Dahshur, about fifteen kilometers south of Saqqara, the mission will
study the South pyramid, called the Bent, and the North pyramid,
called the Red, both built by Snefru (2575 - 2551). On the Giza
plateau at about twenty kilometers from Cairo, it will study the
pyramids of Khufu and Khafre, built by the son and grand-son of
Snefru.

This campaign is entirely dedicated to the advancement of
knowledge. Sharing and transfer are the key words. "Our desire is to
form a team of international experts, says Mehdi Tayoubi,
HIP.Institute president, then discuss and confront the theoretical
and technological approaches to the archaeological ground reality."

"Many theories have been proposed, either explaining their
construction or their structural anomalies, but we are physicists and
engineers, not archaeologists", insists Hany Helal, Professor and
former Minister of Research and the higher education, head of mission
for the Faculty of Engineering of Cairo. "Our goal is to use
techniques to get concrete results. Then the Egyptologists will
interpret them."

The mission should last at least until the end of 2016. Will the
millennium mystery that intrigues archaeologists and Egyptology
lovers then be solved?

More information: http://www.scanpyramids.org

#ScanPyramids

About HIP.Institute:

HIP.Institute is a non-profit organization created in 2015,
dedicated to the study, preservation and transmission of cultural
heritage through the application of groundbreaking technologies. Its
founders have worked for years to promote a better collaboration
between innovative disciplines. First, Hany Helal, professor at the
Faculty of Engineering of Cairo, former Minister for Research and
Education, was one of the pioneers of collaboration between engineers
and archaeologists in Egypt. He participated in micro gravimetric
campaign done by the EDF Foundation in Khufu just 30 years ago, which
revealed intriguing sub density images. Then, famous cartoonist
François Schuiten, who inherited his father's passion for
architecture, and worked on many set designs around urbanism.
Finally, the president of the Institute Mehdi Tayoubi innovation
strategy specialist led at Dassault Systèmes several projects around
Egyptian patrimonial (3D reconstructions of the Giza plateau with
Harvard University, the development of Djedi robot, with the
University of Leeds, to explore Khufu's corridors led by Zahi Hawass
- egyptian archaeologist, and the simulation of a construction theory
advanced by the French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin concerning an
internal ramp).

HIP Institute receives financial, technological and skills support
from companies such as Dassault Systèmes, Schneider Electric, Parrot,
NHK, which are sensitive to innovation and heritage. As a motto, the
HIP.Institute has chosen a sentence from the poet Aimé Césaire: "The
shortest way towards the future is the one that starts by deepening
the past."

Official website: http://www.hip.institute

@HIP_i_

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