[LeifCarrotson]

To whom do you refer to with "we"?

I hope we leave it be until we develop the tech to measure it non-invasively.

The tech available to Napoleon's Egyptologists or the British in the 1800s would not have allowed him to do it. They would have picked up anything they could carry and brought it back to Room 4 in the British Museum. Our tech in 2022 does not currently allow us to see the interior of the chamber more precisely than "there's a void there."

It's likely to not have been breached for millenia, it would be positively criminal to drill to it.

I say wait a couple hundred years until some future archaeologist will have a neutrino or muon scanner with sufficient resolution to read the hieroglyphics. It'll keep.

[kridsdale2]

In a few hundred years geopolitical balances could be wildly different than today: Egypt could somehow come to dominate as a new global empire with Cairo as it's capital, opening it to the vulnerability of a nuclear attack, removing the pyramids before we ever get to develop the scanning technology.

[mwint]

I wonder… would a nuclear attack wipe out the pyramids? Not one directly on them, but centered on the nearby city?

[jakeinspace]

The Giza complex is right next to Cairo. Actually, it might be within the city limits. Far enough from the downtown core to survive a single moderate nuclear blast I would think.

[LeifCarrotson]

While the postcards show the pyramids standing in the desert, the city comes to within ~300m of the base. Downtown is only 10km from the pyramids.

https://i.imgur.com/eKq7Zcz.jpg

[mlsu]

Now you have me thinking.

What if we nuked the pyramids? I'm not saying we should, but I am saying like, you know, maybe.

Nahhhh, we would never do something like that. It would be a travesty.

But like, maybe, we could just like, ynkow, just drop 1 nuke on the pyramids. Just as like, a little thing.

No, no way would we do that. Neeeever would we do that.

But just 1 nuke? right on top? That would be, that would be something. It would be interesting. I mean the pyramid is so symmetric. It's one of those things with a mythical power. Same thing with a fission weapon! Mystical power. It would take just 1 nuke going off right on top of the pyramids for like -- something crazy might happen.

[pencilguin]

Giant alien robots might wrestle each other while clambering around on it. It has happened before.

(Cf. "Transformers 2")

[anshumankmr]

By "we", I meant society and the authorities/academics who are researching this.

I don't there is a way in there without some amount of drilling. I was personally thinking of a fibre optic camera that could be somehow sent in there but there would be still some kind of damage caused to the Pyramid, though I am no expert on this topic at all.