中国科技网10月20日报道（张微 编译）来自埃及和国外的一组专家在周日发起了一项新的尝试，来解开金字塔的秘密，包括在四个著名的法老金字塔中寻找隐藏的房间。

来自埃及、法国、加拿大和日本的建筑师及科学家将使用现代红外技术和高级探测器来绘制吉萨的两座金字塔和开罗南部的两座代赫舒尔金字塔的地图。

“这个特别的专家团队将研究这四个金字塔，看看在它们内部是否存在暗室或其他秘密，” 埃及文物部长Mamduh al-Damati在新闻发布会上宣布了这个消息。

“这些工程师和建筑师将使用非破坏性的技术从事调查研究工作，不会损害金字塔，”他说。

专家称，这项研究被称为“扫描金字塔”，也将是一个新的尝试，试图了解这些金字塔当初是如何建造的。

此前许多项研究任务曾试图揭开金字塔的秘密，但是考古学家和科学家们尚未提出一个关于金字塔建造结构的具体理论解释。

胡夫金字塔，吉萨金字塔中最著名的一个——也是所有金字塔中最高的，是有圣法鲁的儿子建造的，圣法鲁是第四王朝开创者(公元前2575-2465年)，而哈夫拉金字塔或卡夫拉金字塔是由胡夫的儿子建造的。

代赫舒尔的两座金字塔是由圣法鲁建造的。

“我们的想法是找到解开金字塔秘密的方案，” 参与这个项目研究的巴黎HIP研究所创办人Mehdi Tayoubi说。

“30年前已经做过类似的尝试，但这个项目是首次在全球范围内使用尖端技术来探究金字塔的内部，”他对法新社记者说。

“扫描金字塔”项目预计将持续到2016年底。

Damati说，“红外线和μ介子技术”将被用于搜索四座金字塔，也将被用来寻找图坦卡蒙法老陵墓的暗室，这里可能是埃及女王奈费尔提蒂埋葬的地方。

考古学家们从来没有发现过这位传说中的美丽女人，但是英国著名考古学家Nicholas Reeves在最近的研究中发现，她的陵墓很可能就藏在与图坦卡蒙法老墓室相邻的密室里，图坦卡蒙法老墓室位于埃及南部卢克索的帝王谷。

Reeves，今年九月在卢克索探索了他的理论，认为图坦卡蒙法老陵墓的一扇门可能隐藏了奈费尔提蒂埋葬的地方。

埃及政府已经批准使用雷达技术来研究埃及少年法老王图坦卡蒙的陵墓，这个墓室是1922年被英国的埃及古物学者霍华德卡特发现的。

英文原文：

Experts in new bid to unravel 'secrets' of pyramids

A group of Egyptian and foreign experts launched Sunday a new bid to unravel the "secrets" of the pyramids, including a search for hidden chambers inside four famed pharaonic monuments.

Architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan will use modern infra-red technology and advanced detectors to map two pyramids at Giza and the two Dahshur pyramids, south of Cairo.

"This special group will study these pyramids to see whether there are still any hidden chambers or other secrets" inside them, Minister of Antiquities Mamduh al-Damati announced at a news conference.

"These engineers and architects will conduct the survey using non-destructive technology that will not harm the pyramids," he said.

Experts said the study, known as "Scan Pyramids," will also be a fresh attempt to understand how the monuments were built in the first place.

Many previous missions have attempted to unravel the mysteries of the pyramids, but archaeologists and scientists have yet to come up with a concrete theory explaining how the structures were built.

Khufu's pyramid, also known as the Great pyramid of Giza—the tallest of all the pyramids—was built by the son of Snefru, founder of the fourth dynasty (2,575-2,465 BC), while the Khafre's pyramid or Chephren was built by the son of Khufu.

The two pyramids at Dahshur were built by Snefru.

"The idea is to find the solution to the mystery of the pyramids," said Mehdi Tayoubi, founder of Paris-based HIP Institute that is participating in the project.

"A similar attempt was made 30 years ago, but this is the first project at a global level using cutting-edge technology to look inside the pyramids," he told AFP.

Project "Scan Pyramids" is expected to last until the end of 2016.

Damati said the "infra-red and muon" technologies that would be used to search the four pyramids could also be useful to look for a possible hidden chamber in King Tutankhamun's tomb, which may be the burial place of Queen Nefertiti.

Archaeologists have never discovered the mummy of the legendary beauty, but renowned British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves said in a recent study that her tomb could be in a secret chamber adjoining Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of Kings at Luxor, southern Egypt.

Reeves, who was in Luxor in September to probe his theory, believes one door of Tutankhamun's tomb could conceal the burial place of Nefertiti.

Egypt has already approved using radars to search the boy king's tomb, which was found by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922.

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