This is truly vulgar.
I am astonished that an Antiquity of this world-historical value such as the Great Pyramid at Giza is actually being exposed to this form of abuse and pillage. There *ought* to be a LAW!
Who made *this* clarlatan in charge? Why does he get to call the shots, suddenly, after all these many thousands of years???
Some things on this planet are just too darn valuable to be entrusted to hype-generating vaudeville showmen: the Great Pyramid at Giza is surely one of them. Leave it alone a few more thousand years for future generations to check out: it has sat undisturbed thus long, it can wait a wee spell longer!
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. It was a gut-wrenching vulgar sickening piece of slick opportunistic hucksterism.
How much more valuable than the Titanic is the Great Pyramid at Giza???
Archaeological rape is a good description for this. Future generations will despise our generation for allowing this to happen.
Whoa whoa whoa!! Before y'all go off half-cocked on how Hawass is 'destroying the credibility of Egyptology' - have you forgotten the TRULY silly stuff that the New Agers have come up with about the Pyramids and the Sphinx? My personal observation as to why Hawass is playing the 'showman' here is to make a LOUD refutation that the Pyramid was built by little green men from Mars or that there some kind of harmonic convergence meaning to the structures there. He's been fighting off the ridiculous theories of that one guy who claims theres a secret chamber under the Sphinx for years now...so I can well believe that this effort to use modern technology to explore every available crevice in the Pyramid will have important information for archaeologist, architecture and the culture of ancient Egypt. Please...cut the man some slack. I see him as fighting fire with fire and with REAL science, not the silly New Age crap that is overriding a lot of what is being said about ancient Egypt. Its truly ridiculous the stuff thats being touted out there.
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. :')