{"id":8936,"date":"2018-01-13T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T00:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8936"},"modified":"2018-01-22T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:19:05","slug":"pharaohs-meteorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/13\/pharaohs-meteorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharaoh\u2019s Meteorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/415823-giza-pyramid-meteorite-throne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from RT<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Giza Pyramid mystery chamber may hold Pharaoh\u2019s &#8216;meteorite throne&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.01\/article\/5a5a10f5fc7e93e7608b456a.jpg\" alt=\"Giza Pyramid mystery chamber may hold Pharaoh\u2019s 'meteorite throne'\" width=\"480\" \/><em>\u00a9 Mohamed Abd El Ghany \/ Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A huge void discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt late last year may hold an iron throne carved from meteorites, according to new analysis of ancient religious texts.<\/p>\n<p>Giulio Magli, Director of the Department of Mathematics and Professor of Archaeoastronomy at the Politecnico di Milano, studied the Pyramid Texts, religious writings carved into pyramid walls around 2400 BC. Based on his studies, Magli\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/ftp\/arxiv\/papers\/1711\/1711.04617.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposes<\/a> that it\u2019s possible the throne of Pharaoh Khufu \u2013 or \u2018Cheops\u2019 \u2013 lies inside the chamber.<\/p>\n<p><em>Of course it would not be melted iron but meteoritic iron, that is,\u00a0<\/em><em>fallen from the sky in the form of iron meteorites and again cited in the\u00a0<\/em><em>Texts,\u201d<\/em> Magli says in his paper.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the structure of the pyramid, Magli states that before arriving at the funerary chamber there is a gallery. <em>\u201cThe newly discovered room is over this gallery, but does not have a practical function of \u2018relieving weight\u2019 from it, because the roof of the gallery itself was already built with a corbelled technique for this very reason,&#8221;<\/em> he explains in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018-01\/pdm-cpi011118.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what was this room used for? Magli offers a possible interpretation that falls in line with existing knowledge on Egyptian funerary religion as documented in the Pyramid texts: <em>\u201cIn these texts it is said that the pharaoh,before reaching the stars of the north, will have to pass the \u2018gates of the sky\u2019 and sit on his \u2018throne of iron.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/415823-giza-pyramid-meteorite-throne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at RT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from RT Giza Pyramid mystery chamber may hold Pharaoh\u2019s &#8216;meteorite throne&#8217; \u00a9 Mohamed Abd El Ghany \/ Reuters A huge void discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt late last year may hold an iron throne carved from meteorites, according to new analysis of ancient religious texts. Giulio Magli, Director of the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}