Isn't There a Better Way to Get to the Basement of Troy?

"I'm sure fool. You not know how mine carts work," the character says of a man who thought Troy was loaded with explosives. "He spawned in dynamite and put it in his mine cart for which he built the tracks by his own hand, I'm sure." He got to the basement but blew up the entire thing before finding out what's there. 'If only he had the power of Intel and the technology that they're fueling to be able to look inside deep layers of the earth with advanced sonography'