In recent decades some gaps have begun to be clarified:the restoration project of the Pompeii Archaeological Park (Grande Progetto Pompei) is exposing a part of region V (the so-called Cuneo; wedge) to prevent the risks caused by the presence of layers of volcanic accumulation -which reach almost th
The CNRS and Inria have joined the ScanPyramids mission to develop a robotic concept that is as least invasive as possible to explore hard-to-reach places such as the Cheops pyramid. The folded robot can slip through a 3.5 cm diameter hole drilled in a wall, to deploy on the other side taking the
Science and the Future was in Cairo to attend the press conference of the Scan Pyramids team, at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. Report. This infrared thermography image shows a marked temperature difference between the hot top of Dahshurs red pyramid (in red) and the colder bottom (blue and pu
In the Iranian province of Fars, about five kilometers northwest of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Persian empire, there is a rocky mountain in which tombs and reliefs from the Achaemenid and Sassanian eras are excavated. Of all of them, four stand out for their size, cruciform in appearanc