Using muon tomography, researchers have created a stereoscopic reconstruction of an unexplored burial chamber in Naples, believed to contain ornate frescoes and sculptures.
Beneath the streets of Italian Naples, archaeologists have discovered a hidden underground necropolis. It was found using a revolutionary new technique called muon tomography, writes IFLScience.
It has been noted that, using the power of cosmic radiation particles, scientists can map areas that were previously inaccessible.
“Muon particles are negatively charged particles produced by cosmic rays when they collide with atoms in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Every minute, about 10,000 muons per square meter reach Earth’s surface . muon tomography, also known as muography, uses these scattered rays. to build 3D models of obstacles such as walls and floors. The city is inaccessible for archaeological excavations due to the high population density in this area,” the scientists said.
According to them, the remains of ancient Naples with its buildings, streets, aqueducts and necropolis, created by the Greeks, built in the second half of the first millennium BC, were found, buried about ten meters below the modern city street level.
The first task is to develop a compact muon detector with high angular resolution that can be transported in a narrow space and without access to the mains. The detector we developed is based on the technologies we use in subjective physics experiments at CERN and at the INFN National Laboratory in Gran Sasso, where they study the properties of neutrinos and look for dark matter,” says Giovanni De Lellis from the Federico II University and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) of Naples.
Recall that earlier in Japan, archaeologists accidentally discovered the oldest residence of Prince Toneri in the eighth century AD. The prince is famous for the second oldest book of Japanese classical history.
Source: korrespondent
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