EGYPT: Ancient Egypt's pyramid builders proved themselves more than a match for modern technology yesterday, when an attempt to discover one of the Great Pyramid's last secrets ended inconclusively, reports Siona Jenkins.
The world's media spent a sleepless night on the Giza Plateau watching as a robot inched its way slowly up a narrow shaft.
It drilled through a limestone door and inserted a cable that transmitted pictures of what were hoped to be either papyrus scrolls, statues or even a chamber. Instead, the camera showed the world a small space blocked by another stone wall. The sarcophagus of an overseer of the pyramid builders' village was also opened and a skeleton found, but little else of value.