Researchers may be planning new attempts to unlock the secrets of the Pharaohs, after a robot sent into the heart of Egypt's Great Pyramid found its way barred.
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My guess is that we probably going to have a statue of the king... gazing towards the sky and stars
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Robert Bauvel, Egyptologist
The miniature robot drilled a hole in a limestone door blocking a shaft and inserted a fibre optic camera through it only to find the chamber blocked by yet another door - not seen for more than 4,000 years.
Despite the disappointment, several scientists called the discovery "very important", believing that "something amazing" may be hidden behind the second door.
"The finding... promises almost with certainty that there is a chamber on the other side," Robert Bauvel, expert on ancient Egypt, told the BBC.
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