Hong Kong Dentist Preparing to Unveil the Secrets of Ancient Egypt
A dentist from Hong Kong is preparing to use his manual dexterity in a completely different setting, as he swaps the treatment room for the ancient Eygptian pyramids.
Ng Tze-Chuen, a 59 year old dentist by day and inventor by night, has been working alongside the former antiquities minister in Egypt, Zahi Hawass, to try and uncover the mysteries lying in the last remaining Ancient Wonder of the World, the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Ng has been inspired by his own inventions and has developed more than 70 models of forceps based on the challenges of gripping the contours of the human teeth and believes that his experience in handling both forceps and chopsticks will come in handy for this unique venture.
Ng and his team are planning to fit tiny gripping mechanisms to a robot the size of an insect to scale the walls of the Great Pyramid and explore the interior without doing any damage.
The Great Pyramid is the largest of the three pyramids at Giza, which was completed in 2500 BC and stands 482 feet high. The doors inside the Great Pyramid have puzzled experts for centuries and it is believed that the burial chamber of the Pharoah Cheops, also known as Kaufu, may lie beyond the famous doors. The international team, which will go by the name of Djedi, is planning to begin the mission this spring.
Ng has a lengthy list of projects to complete in the future, including sampling soil on the moon using a German rover and searching for Cleopatra’s tomb.
Ng has always had an avid interest in the intriguing and said that he has always though that he must have been a “Martian crab” in a former life.
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