New technology allows archaeologists to use particle physics to explore the past

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What seems like science fiction is also being used to peer inside the pyramids in Egypt, chambers beneath volcanoes, and even treat cancer.

Naples, Italy — Beneath the honking horns and operatic yelling of Naples, the most blissfully chaotic city in Italy, archeologist Raffaella Bosso descends into the deafening silence of an underground maze, zigzagging back in time roughly 2,300 years. Before the Ancient Romans, it was the Ancient Greeks who colonized Naples, leaving behind traces of life, and death, inside ancient burial chambers, she says.

Thanks to this detector, they now know for sure, and they didn't even have to use a shovel. To understand the technology at work, Tioukov takes us to his laboratory at the University of Naples, where researchers scour the images from that detector.Specifically, they're looking for muons, cosmic rays left over from the Big Bang.

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