Archaeologists Found an 'Anomaly' Near the Pyramids – May Reveal Ancient Portal

by rmason • 2 years ago

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Animats• 2 years ago

Better ground-penetrating radar is an under-developed area. Existing systems have terrible resolution. Multiple receivers, or synthetic aperture radar, might help.

simonh2• 2 years ago

Frankly, I'm still somewhat boggled by the fact that we have ground penetrating radar at all.

rcarmo• 2 years ago

I don’t want to jinx it, but I was just watching Stargate SG-1…

neilv• 2 years ago

Yeah, I suspect that someone familiar with the Stargate franchise couldn't have written that headline without being aware they were tickling those associations.

PorterBHall• 2 years ago

Ancient portal here means doorway to a deeper, unexplored structure.

Saved you a click.

sambeau• 2 years ago

They knew what they were doing. It would be funny if it wasn't so common.

burningChrome• 2 years ago

Judging by the other comments, it would appear many people took the bait without even reading the article.

bcherny• 2 years ago

I am confused where the word “portal” comes from. Researchers used ground-penetrating radar to find a potential structure underground. What does that have to do with a portal?

dumbo-octopus• 2 years ago

"Portal" === "Door". If there's a structure somewhere, it probably has a door. If it's an ancient structure, it probably has an ancient door.

ActionHank• 2 years ago

Yes, but door to which dimension and are the aliens who built the pyramids still there? /s

Pretty clickbaity headline

alsetmusic• 2 years ago

It’s a clickbaity headline. On purpose.

riffic2• 2 years ago

first thing coming to mind for me is elf power's step through the portal which is a jam

https://orangetwinrecords.bandcamp.com/track/step-through-th...

BitwiseFool• 2 years ago

I honestly thought someone posted an old April Fool's article and this was a cheeky reference to the movie Stargate.

angst_ridden2• 2 years ago

Amazes me that Popular Mechanics used to be a (mildly sensationalist but sort of) decent magazine. Now, it's straight up ancient aliens and after-death experiences.

greatpostman• 2 years ago

Gotta make money somehow

simonh2• 2 years ago

Turns out nonsense is more popular than actual mechanics.

a28002763• 2 years ago

Amazes me how people pass judgement without having read the article or considered the meaning of "portal"...

notfed• 2 years ago

I do and will continue to pass judgement for trashy clickbait titles.

codeflo• 2 years ago

The headline is very obviously trying to reference Stargate without technically being false. That the article "explains" the headline doesn't make it any less shitty clickbait, in fact, that's the very definition of clickbait.

angst_ridden2• 2 years ago

If this were the only article, my judgment would be unfair. But have you read the web site of late?

RcouF1uZ4gsC• 2 years ago

They could have made the title more click-baity by saying:

“Anomaly detected in the quantum fields near the pyramids…”

After all, radar is a quantum phenomenon at its hear, right?

whimsicalism3• 2 years ago

in the sense that everything in the world is, yes. but radar is a classical technique

floam• 2 years ago

7th chevron encoded and locked.

ChrisMarshallNY• 2 years ago

Dang. I was hoping for a Stargate.

cheaprentalyeti• 2 years ago

Yeah, we could vote Apophis 2024.

whimsicalism3• 2 years ago

Unbelievably clickbait headline, shame on your Popular Mechanics. I remember when you were decent.

crmd• 2 years ago

My grandfather had years worth of Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1960s and 70s at his house that I used to read as a kid.

Typical cover stories were how to build a tool shed, how to design and install a septic tank, how to dig a well, how to install an in-ground swimming pool, how to change the fluids in your car, and how to administer first aid.

This ancient aliens style content is a joke. I don't understand why PM ceded their how-to brand to random YouTube creators.

riffic2• 2 years ago

capitalism basically.

whimsicalism3• 2 years ago

more specifically - people are unwilling to pay for high quality media

pwg• 2 years ago

Does PM still print and mail a paper magazine, or have they gone "web-only"?

If "web-only" then the fact that "ancient aliens" would gather by far more internet clicks than "how to dig a well" would explain why they have gone in this direction. They are following the advertising dollar where it leads, and 'more clicks' means more advertising dollars, so their incentive is to put out stories that gather more clicks.

fleischhauf• 2 years ago

they could have a well building (pun intended) YouTube channel too tho.

a28002763• 2 years ago

The article is not referring to an "alien conspiracy time travel portal" but to an entrance.

nomel• 2 years ago

They used electrical resistivity tomography to find something L shaped in the ground that is probably "a mixture of sand and gravel", that "may have been an entrance to the deeper structure".

It's ancient, but wtf does this have to do with aliens? ER tomography is super neat science!

edit: The issue appears to be the use of the word "portal" to describe an entrance. I'm not seeing the issue, but maybe because I'm an English speaker. Here's the definition:

    Portal: a doorway, gate, or other entrance, especially a large and imposing one.

animitronix• 2 years ago

In modern usage "portal" almost always appears alongside "to another dimension!!", so it's become associated with the paranormal almost by default.

gigel82• 2 years ago

We need Jack O'Neill for this one.

mcguire• 2 years ago

The actual paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/arp.1940

Seems like I recall reading about Egyptian tombs with a rock-cut outer chamber and a shaft leading to a lower burial chamber.

Hypothesis: It's a tomb. In a cemetery. Unrelated to the pyramids which are nearby.

senderista• 2 years ago

Article OK, headline...not

Archaeologists Found an 'Anomaly' Near the Pyramids – May Reveal Ancient Portal

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