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不配90X
09-14-2002, 17:34
http://www.jfdaily.com/epublish/gb/paper39/1212/class003900001/hwz665704.htm

前往4500年来无人进入的禁区追查王后墓室里的神秘通道
机器人将探大金字塔

解放日报报道:新闻背景

举世闻名的世界最大奇迹之一———埃及吉萨地区最大的金字塔、胡夫金字塔上有一段“死亡”铭文:“不论是谁骚扰了法老的安宁,死神之翼将在它的头上降临。”美某医学杂志曾发布调查报告:l00名曾经进入金字塔的人中,在接下来的l0年内死于癌症的高达40%。几十年来,一些进入大金字塔深处考古的科学家们不约而同感染了一种神秘细菌,有的甚至很快就不治身亡!9月17日,一个全副武装的小机器人“金字塔漫游者”将“不惧”法老咒语,代替科学家们勇探胡夫金字塔的内部秘道,以尝试解开传说中最后的谜团。届时全球142个国家和地区将同时现场直播此次考古探险进程,中央电视台也将派出前方记者进行现场报道。

这是数千年来,从未有人涉足的神秘禁区。在埃及吉萨三大金字塔之一———“胡夫金字塔”中,有两条诡异神秘的“南北通道”。通道的尽头均被岩石封住,没有人知道在两条通道尽头的岩石后面究竟掩藏着什么……有些专家认为,两大通道中较长的南通道可能通往传说中未被发现的“第三大墓室”。因为它在离外部16米的地方就被拦住,留下容纳一个墓室的足够空间。

9月17日,埃及当地时间凌晨2点,由美国国家地理学会组织的考古学家将进入世界最大的地上陵墓———胡夫金字塔,让一个专门为这次考古研制的机器人,借助高精度的探测和摄制技术,爬入从未打开过神秘的“南通道”,去发现里面藏着的秘密。

英国《泰晤士报》称,这将是4500年以来,人类第一次对金字塔“南通道”尽头的“绝密内幕”进行窥探。这次大规模的活动可能揭开古埃及文明中最引人瞩目的金字塔内部构造之谜,以及又是谁主持建造这一令人惊叹的巨大工程。

重走千年谜路

据报道,机器人“金字塔漫游者”将从金字塔入口处进入,沿着一条向上的通道约爬行64米,便会来到一间几千年来从未曾使用过、专家们则认为仍未建成功的房间———王后墓室。然后,它将沿着王后墓室内两个秘密通道之一的南通道继续前进,直到到达通道的尽头———那块嵌有两个铜把手的“阻路石”,探询背后的终极秘密。10多年前,科学家们的探秘之路就是无奈在此止步。这是一个被阻塞的51.6平方厘米的井状通道,建在王后墓室的南墙。自它1872年被发现以来就令研究者困惑,其建造的目的和作用一直不被人们所知。

本次机器人探秘金字塔行动的负责人是埃及古物高级委员会的主席扎赫·哈瓦斯和“吉萨高原绘图计划”总策划玛克·列那教授。机器人的全部探秘行动都将在9月17日当天由美国“国家地理频道”现场直播。

“南北通道”之谜

根据已知的情况,存放法老胡夫遗体的大金字塔中包括两个大墓室:法老墓室———里面是法老胡夫的坟墓;王后墓室,比法老墓室略小,位于法老墓室正下方。尽管它被称作王后墓室,但科学家们却倾向于认为它并不是给王后安排的。首先该房间空空如也,甚至尚未完成。其次也是最重要的一点,王后墓室的北墙和南墙上各建有两条小小的通道,呈对角线方向往上延伸。让人疑惑的是,在两条通道的尽头,都被一块一丝不透的圆整石头密封堵住!

南北通道自1872年被首次发现时,其顶端就一直处于封死状态。多年来,科学家们对神秘通道的作用费尽猜疑。一开始有人认为它们是空气和水的通道,然而这条理论立刻被推翻了,因为它们都被死死堵住;还有人猜测,这两条仅51.6平方厘米见方的通道是外星人通道,估计他们的体型远比人类小,就20厘米左右!

全副武装的“漫游者”

为了找出真相,考古学家们特意定制了这个小型钻臂机器人———“金字塔漫游者”,它装备了光纤镜头、高解像度相机和全球最小地面雷达仪。它将使用世界上最小最敏锐的地面探测雷达天线,探访王后墓室内的南通道“阻路石”后面的内幕。如果雷达发现,在密封的“阻路石”背后后面果真还另有一番洞天———比如第三大墓室,“金字塔漫游者”就将通过岩石上的裂缝送进去一根光纤照相机,并拍下有史以来的第一张照片。

“金字塔漫游者”是在德国科学家鲁道夫·甘特伯林克的设计发明基础上制造的。早在10年前,鲁道夫设计的机器人“尤伯特2号”就曾探访过王后墓室的南通道并发现了神秘的“阻路石”。如今,“金字塔漫游者”装备着世界上最先进的探测设备,设计基于“9·11”后用来搜索世贸遗址幸存者曾用过的探测模型,并且功效显著。

而且“金字塔漫游者”体形更小,只有127毫米高、25.4毫米宽。它身上的地面探测雷达能穿透75毫米宽的混凝土和穿透更远距离的金字塔渗水石灰石,此外它携带的超声波传感器还能测出石头的厚度。一个力距尺将探测这块“阻路石”是否能够被移动。其他一些工具则用于帮助它寻找能使光纤维着照像机得以通过的细小缝隙。一个传感器将用于测量两个铜把手是否能形成一个电路,这将证明它们是否和另外一边相连。

9月17日早晨7时起央视全程直播

本报讯2002年9月17日北京时间上午7:00-10:30,中央电视台将现场直播机器人探寻大金字塔的全过程。央视已与美国国家地理频道达成协议,享有中国大陆地区的独家转播权。届时,中央电视台将派前方报道组前往埃及,首次以跨国直播考古现场的方式,直击这次考古活动的前前后后。

央视将以公共直播信号作为节目平台,把世界上最大的地上陵墓---胡夫金字塔和世界上最大的地下陵墓---秦陵地宫作为古埃及和古中国两大世界文明的标志,进行一次有益的考古学术电视对话。

届时,央视国际网站也将与电视同步进行网上的“视频直播”和“图文直播”。

胡夫金字塔

胡夫金字塔也称大金字塔,位于开罗西南面的吉萨高原的北部。该金字塔建于埃及第四王朝第二个国王胡夫统治时期(约公元前2670年),原高146.5米,因年久风化,顶端剥落10米,现高136.5米。在1888年巴黎埃菲尔铁塔建成以前,它一直是世界上最高的建筑物。金字塔的底面呈正方形,边长约230多米,占地面积约80亩。塔身由230万块巨石组成,分别重达1.5吨至160吨。胡夫金字塔是埃及迄今发现的108座金字塔中最大的。

胡夫金字塔是世界古代七大奇迹之一。4000多年来人们一直在探寻大金字塔之谜。从表面看,胡夫金字塔似乎并未完工,因为其顶部粗糙不平,而不是尖的。至于为何没有完工,至今仍是个谜。而且胡夫金字塔是唯一拥有华丽大走廊的金字塔。这一走廊是干什么用的,至今也依然是谜。本报辑

对“南北通道”的几种猜测:

通风或者排水通道:现在该猜测已被推翻,因为通道的末端均被封死。

“星宿通道”:通道的末端直指向两颗天狼星和猎户星座的一颗亮星,吉萨地区三大金字塔的布局被认为是模仿这三颗星排列的缩微版。然而,由于通道蜿蜒而行,因此实际上并没有指向天际中的任何一点。

命理学图形:通道的角度遵循着一种命理学图形,但是这一图形具体是怎样的,至今仍不清楚。

“灵魂通道”:建造这些通道是为了让法老的灵魂得以升天。但通道的尽头是被封死的,灵魂如何飞升天堂?更何况,考古学家们普遍认为,“王后墓室”根本没有埋葬任何人。

神秘内室:金字塔内有足够的空间来容纳另一个房间。然而这段通道只有51.6平方厘米,作为一个入口未免太小了。

“外星人”通道:有科学家认为,金字塔是由来自外太空神秘的“第12行星”的外星人建造的,这些外星人通过基因转换创造了人类。他们在大金字塔上留两条51.6平方厘米的通道,是为了供自己出入,因为他们的体型远比人类小,就20厘米左右。

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不配90X
09-14-2002, 17:43
看美国国家地理协会(National Geographic Society)的消息

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0910_020913_egypt_1.html

Egyptian Pyramid Mysteries to Be Explored Live on TV

Nancy Gupton
for National Geographic News
September 13, 2002

With modern technology and a little bit of luck, archaeologists hope to solve two of ancient Egypt's mysteries next week in a live television broadcast.

The scientists will attempt to probe the inside of a blocked shaft in the Great Pyramid of Giza, and will also open the oldest intact sarcophagus found in modern times.

Both have been sealed for more than 4,000 years, their contents unknown.

In Pyramids Live: Secret Chambers Revealed, presented by the National Geographic Channel, Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and his team will use a customized robot similar to those used to search for survivors of last year's attack on the World Trade Center to peer into a narrow shaft that opens into the queen's chamber of the Great Pyramid.

The space has been blocked for centuries by a chunk of limestone that has copper handles and may have been wedged into the shaft by pyramid builders after they used it as a polishing tool.

The archaeologists speculate that the shaft might contain valuable artifacts such as papyrus, builders tools, or perhaps even a statue of Pharaoh Khufu, the pyramid's builder. Or it may contain nothing at all.

For Hawass, director of Egypt's antiquities program and a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, solving the mystery is important no matter what the investigation uncovers. "I would just like to reveal what's behind it," he said. "If nothing, it's fine with me."

"Since this stone was found," said Hawass, "people have talked about the mystery and what's behind it, what the pyramid has hidden, what kind of treasures are there. This is the first time actually that something will be solved." The executive producer of the TV special, John Bredar, also said he would be satisfied even if it's discovered that the shaft holds only air. "In archaeology there's no such thing as a dry hole," he said. "Everything holds information."

Mummy in Sarcophagus?

During the live broadcast, scheduled to premiere in the United States on Monday, September 16, on Fox Television, Hawass and his team also will visit a recently discovered village of the pyramid builders less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) away from the Great Pyramid.

There, the group will open for the first time the sealed sarcophagus of a man identified by hieroglyphics as Ny Swt Wsrt, believed to be the overseer of the pyramid builders' village.

The sarcophagus is important because its contents have never been revealed and because it's the coffin of a common man, not a king or nobleman. At more than 4,000 years old, it's the oldest intact sarcophagus ever found by modern archaeologists.

"I've been excavating in this cemetery for ten years and I have not found anything intact like this," Hawass said. "This man looks to be very important because of the construction of the tomb, because of the way that they wrote his title—the overseer of the administrative district or the mayor of the city of the pyramid builders."

Hawass thinks the sarcophagus likely contains a mummy, but he is cautious in his hopes. "You cannot be confident of anything, but I believe that the reason they sealed it is because there is something important inside," he said.

The tomb of the overseer is one of many exciting recent finds in the pyramid builders' village, south of the Sphinx.

Archaeologist Mark Lehner, director of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, believes that as many as 20,000 people moved in and out of the village while building the pyramids. Dormitory-style buildings appear to have held sleeping quarters for as many as 2,000 people. Diggers also have found evidence of copper-making and cooking facilities.

"All the evidence points to a very large lost city of the Pyramids that hadn't been known before we started working," said Lehner.

Mysterious Shaft

In Khufu's Great Pyramid, Hawass's team has set up camp in the erroneously named queen's chamber. (The room may never have been used, and its function remains unknown.)

Inside the chamber are two shafts. Scholars aren't sure about the purpose of these shafts, which were unique to pyramids built during the Old Kingdom period (2575 to 2150 B.C.), but one theory is that they were built as passageways for the pharaohs' journey to the afterlife.

"It's thought that the so-called air shafts are really conduits for the king's soul," said Lehner.

The first modern investigation of the shaft in the queen's chamber occurred in the 1990s, when archaeologist Rudolf Gantenbrink sent a robot into the passageway. The machine was blocked by the limestone block after traveling 213 feet (65 meters) into the shaft.

Further hampering the exploration, the interior of the shaft is only 8 inches by 8 inches (20 centimeters by 20 centimeters) and the shaft bends in several places.

On Monday, Hawass and his team will use a different robot to try to find out what, if anything, is hidden behind the limestone block. It is hoped that the custom-built Pyramid Rover (see sidebar) can peer around the stone and transmit images of the shaft's interior.

Do Hawass, Lehner, and the television crew know in advance what the audience will see on Monday?

Bredar said even the research and production teams are in the dark. "It's do-or-die that night," he said. "We don't know exactly what's going to happen."

The TV program, which will include three-dimensional recreations of the Giza Pyramids and Sphinx, illustrates the "excruciating nature of hard-core field archaeology," said Bredar. "It offers just a glimpse of what people like Mark [Lehner] go through in a field season."

The National Geographic Channel special Pyramids Live: Secret Chambers Revealed airs in the United States on Fox Television on Monday, September 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The same show will air worldwide later in the week under a different title, Egypt: Secret Chambers Revealed, on the National Geographic Channel. Check local listings for more information.