Tests on robot archaeologists are underway in order to send a robot deep inside Egypt's largest Khufu pyramid near the capital for exploration, Egypt's MENA news agency reported on Thursday. The tests will be carried out by a team from Singapore and a joint group from Britain and China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on a specifically designed makeshift milestone-built passage, reported the MENA.

The robot archaeologist of the British-Hong Kong team has been tested, while the robot of the Singaporean team has not, as part of the robot was broken during its shipment to Egypt, MENA quoted Zahi Hawwas, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, as saying. He said the British-Hong Kong robot easily penetrated through the passage until it reached the first door.

An Egyptian team will undertake the mission scheduled for February next year in cooperation with the best team of the above two after the tests, Hawwas said. A robot archaeologist was sent into Khufu pyramid in September 2002 by an Egyptian team in cooperation with a U.S. university, which led to the discovery of three doors. By exploring various clues, archaeologists have been trying to discover the tomb of Khufu, the pharaoh who reigned around 2670 B.C

*note: The issue with this news release is that nobody in the Ufology community trusts Zahi. He is well known for ONLY supporting evidence that upholds the idea that the pyramids were built by the eygptians. This is clearly not the case based on the fact the pyramids are aligned to the Orion Constellation at 10,500 B.C.

A striking characteristic of the pyramids and Sphinx of Giza is the way in which they are integrated into a grand architectural plan, based on mathematical and astronomical data. There is no evidence that the pyramids were used as tombs. What is certain is that two narrow shafts emanating from inside the Great Pyramid were directed to two specific stars: Zeta Orionis, one of the three stars in Orion's belt, and Sirius, in  the constellation of Canis Major.

It is certain, too, that the principal Giza monuments form an accurate terrestrial 'map' of the three stars of Orion's belt as these constellations appeared in 10,500 BC. (see below) Who could have been observing the skies over Giza in 10,500 BC and who, at that date, could have had the technical capacity to realize such monumental works as the Sphinx and the pyramids?

Egyptologists assert there was no civilization on Earth at that time, let alone one capable of planning and building such immense, well engineered structures. If they are right, why do the alignments of Giza so plainly and repetitively mirror the skies of the 11th millennium BC.