Robots have been up these shafts and found that both contain doorways with copper handles. One chamber in the pyramid called the "Queen's Chamber" (although there is no evidence it was ever used for a queen’s burial) contains two shafts that go up into the pyramid but do not exit outside. In the interview, and in his lecture, Hawass said that he is excited at the robot work that has been going on over the past two decades at the Great Pyramid. "We don't have any money at all for excavation or preservation," he told the audience.Ī hidden chamber inside the Great Pyramid Tourism plummeted after Egypt's revolution, resulting in lower ticket sales at ancient sites, a situation that has the antiquities ministry strapped for cash. I'm going to Brazil, going to Argentina at the end of the month, going to Australia, New Zealand, everywhere to promote tourism to Egypt and to bring the tourists back because, I think, I'm the only one who can really bring the tourists back to Egypt," he told LiveScience. He'll be in Montreal on June 6 and will be launching a worldwide tour. Hawass said that Toronto is only the beginning. The museum's director Janet Carding said that Egypt's ambassador to Canada, Wael Aboul-Magd, helped bring Hawass to Toronto and was in attendance. The massive gallery where the lecture was held was filled to capacity, with a waiting list just as robust.
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