The repetition of earthquakes and aftershocks in Syria and Turkey have raised concerns about ancient Egyptian monuments such as the pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx after damage to the Citadel of Aleppo in Syria and Gaziantep in Turkey .
Sources from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed to RT that the focus is on protecting Egyptian antiquities from any earthquake, especially after several recent earthquakes.
Sources pointed out that the announcement of the results of Egypt’s pyramid exploration project “Pyramids Residents” will go a long way in protecting Egypt’s antiquities from earthquakes, especially since Egypt has suffered many earthquakes in past but the pyramids were not destroyed. The Pyramids and ancient pharaoh monuments were affected, citing the 1992 earthquake that affected and unaffected Islamic artifacts.
Sources confirmed that the pyramid exploration project is one of the main projects the ministry has been working on since 2015 in collaboration with the Cairo University Faculty of Engineering and the Heritage Conservation and Innovation Institute (HIP) in Paris.
He pointed out that the latest technology in the field of scanning, which is the method of radiographic imaging of muons, cosmic particles, thermal imaging using infrared rays, photogrammetry, scanning and 3D reconstruction, penetrated inside the largest heart. Trenchless Egyptian pyramids.
The sources emphasized the importance of modern practical methods in the preservation of ancient Egyptian antiquities, pointing out that the main scientific project will help to learn a lot about Egyptian antiquities and the methods of preservation them.
Source: RT
Source: Arabic RT
