The Pyramids have stood for over 4,500 years. Their mystery has inspired and baffled countless civilizations, many of which have risen and fallen since the pyramids’ construction.

Their mysteries aren’t all solved, either.

Many parts of the pyramids are inaccessible, and forcing our way in there could destroy what is in them. “ScanPyramids” aims to make those inaccessible areas accessible without force, and their newest proposal is a unique one: put a blimp in them!

The French research companies “Inria” and “CNRS” helped ScanPyramids develop the latest in pyramid-exploring technology. A very small hole will be drilled, and a robot will crawl through it. On the other end, it inflates the small remote-controlled blimp which can freely float around the chamber that was detected. After the chamber has been explored, the blimp comes back to where it was deployed, deflates, and is then extracted.

This allows for the chamber and artifacts to stay in tact, where smashing the walls down could destroy everything inside. This has been a problem in the past, and invaluable artifacts are lost to this barbaric form of exploring. This sophisticated new method could remove all the remaining mysteries of the Pyramids.

Eric Cawley is an occasional blogger for Gary Stringham & Associates. Gary provides consulting and expert witness services in embedded systems such as robotics. Feel free to contact Gary at 208-939-6984.