英语文摘：探金字塔秘墓再碰壁_公共英语阅读理解

英语文摘：探金字塔秘墓再碰壁

A small robot sent to solve one of history's mysteries only succeeded in presenting scientists and TV viewers with yet another mystery yesterday.

With its camera peering through a hole in a small sealed door in Egypt's Great Pyramid to see what was beyond, it discovered yet another door.

"It's another sealed door. This is very important," said an excited Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

The robot, the Pyramid Rover, took two hours to crawl along a narrow shaft, drill through a door, then push through its camera.

Dr Hawass said the next job for researchers was to study the video tape and plan for further inspections, which could take up to 12 months.

His council, engineers from the Boston firm iRobot and researchers from National Geographic, had spent a year planning yesterday's event.

American TV stations went live showing the robot creeping along the 20-centimetre-square 60-metre-long shaft.

As the robot inched along the rough-surfaced shaft toward the limestone door adorned with two copper handles, its path was lit by a blue beam.

During the broadcast, Dr Hawass revealed a stone sarcophagus found in a tomb near the Great Pyramid containing the skeleton of a man thought to have died at the time of the pyramid's construction some 4500 years ago.

探金字塔秘墓再碰壁

全球一百四十一个国家，超过一亿电视家庭昨晨透过电视直播，目击探索埃及胡夫金字塔南信道密室之谜，竟然「碰壁」。考古学家发现秘道尽头门外有门，至于新门后的秘密，须先解决如何打开这个新门后才有分晓。此外，电视又直播考古人员打开的一个石棺，发现内藏一具估计有四千五百年的骸骨，令人失望的是它不是预期中的木乃伊。

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