Posted on 03/22/2007 12:55:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
;D! Hilarious!
Even Alqaida is pausing in its attempt to blow up the world car by car while the mysterious doors are opened. 6.5 billion people have been waiting for 200 years for this.
So. We'll know what's in there and be dead long before their despite of us occurs. Lets rip those suckers apart and see how they were made. We'll let the future generations put them back together if they want them so much.
I am forceably reminded of that live TV "show" hosted by (was it Telly Savalas? Some bald guy anyway) about 20 years ago, opening the safe recovered by the French from the Titanic.I think that was from the Andrea Doria. The bald guy I don't remember, unless it was the guy who ran the dive team. Turned out that they'd opened the wrong safe, and the other one was still on the wreck somewhere. :')
LOL! The architects would have used a cream pie, but figured it would spoil by the time someone tried this.
And also an intractable badass when it comes to protecting Egypt's historical sites.
Actually, as much as I think he's a blowhard and buffoon, Hawass is probably the best man for the job at this time. He is all about promoting tourism in Egypt, and has had to contend with little inconveniences like Islamofascists gunning down dozens of German tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut back in the 1990s.
As far as chambers under the Sphinx, the first to say so was Thutmose IV, Pharaoh of Egypt -- he even left the Dream Stele between the paws to tell everyone about it. Maybe that's who you mean? Hawass' looking behind another stupid identical door in those tiny little shafts is just hucksterism, and does nothing to refute or confirm anything.
Hawass was involved in one of those oh-so-eerie specials on Giza, some years ago. There was a surviving workman from the 1930s effort that freed the Sphinx of sand, and he pointed out the exact location of the block used to patch a hole they'd found in the lower rear part of the Sphinx. The block was pried out, and someone (maybe it was Mark Lehner) led a camera crew into it for the viewers. It appeared to have been dug by medieval or ancient robbers looking for chambers, treasure, or whatnot. The same little tunnel also went the other way (not shown), up towards the head.
For that matter, there's a void under the Sphinx that appears to be a small cavern or tunnel, and the stone box (it is alongside the right paw, which is on the left as one faces the Sphinx) is known to be hollow and covering something, perhaps the doorway mentioned on the Dream Stele.
Wondering what's inside there isn't "silly New Age crap". Telling the world that a waterlogged New Kingdom-era hole in the ground near the Sphinx is the grave of Osiris sound very much like "silly New Age crap", but that's one of Hawass'.
Great!
He's always there to gloom onto the work of others and to get his mug on TV.That's one of the rules -- Gantenbrink, builder of the first shaft robot "Upuaut" (sp?), wound up banned from further work because he announced his findings to the world instead of telling Hawass about it and letting him do it.
Hawass makes himself a pretty large target ... when they dish it out ....'mainstream Egyptology "the mental equivalent of Agent Orange"' ... he can too.
Primadonnas....or maybe whores for funding.
Here's an example of a topic from the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list, but I think you've both visited one or more of them. :')
KlueLass
|
|
|||
Gods |
Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution. |
||
|
· Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists · |
|||
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.