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Use of ground-penetrating radar and related remote-sensing methods to map buried structures without excavation.
Mamdouh Eldamaty's team has published a review of geophysical surveys at Tutankhamun's tomb that he says suggests hidden structures beyond its walls. Other experts are cautious, and any link to Nefertiti still rests on scan readings taken through a painted wall.
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Mamdouh Eldamaty's team combined ground-penetrating radar with the first microgravity measurements taken at KV62 and reports a corridor about two metres wide packed with rubble, with the camera test still waiting on Egyptian permits.
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Surface collection, geophysics and coring at Opovo Ugar-Bajbuk between 2022 and 2024 put the late Neolithic settlement above 9 hectares with up to 220 houses and more than 700 people at its peak. The house sizes vary too little to mark out a wealthy few.
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Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities is weighing a proposal to drill and send camera-carrying miniature tractors through, on the strength of 1,200 gravity readings and a rereading of surveys that earlier teams called empty.
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Ground-penetrating radar mapped four wings of St Clare's Convent beneath a sports field earmarked for an underground car park, overturning the assumption that its remains were gone.
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