[SunkenCiv]

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Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, speaks to the media in front of the Great Pyramid in Cairo on Friday, September, 2002, when a robot explored a door in the Great Pyramid. That exploration led to more doors, which Hawass says he plans to open later this year. -- AP Photo/Mohammad al sehety

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Uh, there's nothing to reveal. The point at which the doors terminate these shafts is very near the surface, i.e, on the back side of the last layer of blocks. This is just another Capone's Vault style hype in which Zowie will make a bunch of howlers.

[GSlob]

after cutting through all of it, they will find an eye surrounded by rays, like the one on the back of $1 bill.

[FairOpinion]

"I can only say that this year I will reveal the secrets of the Great Pyramid doors," Hawass told Discovery News."

Thanks for the post.

It will be interesting, will they just find another door?

[AdmSmith]

This month I am going to choose the team that is going to work with me on this project. It will be either from Singapore or Hong Kong," Hawass said.

...and the criteria is a) the scientific reputation or b) the size of the wallet?

[Pro-Bush]

lol, Zahi Hawass. Where is Geraldo?

[Daffynition]

Hawass' hype is pretty over-the-top and that makes him less of a scholar and more of a PT Barnum persona. That being said, he holds some hefty credentials and he wields a lot of sway ...and he perturbs many countrymen for his associations with the west. Overall, he's probably done more good than harm. And he won't rest until he gets the Rosetta Stone back.

Like Capone's vault that you site, it'll be about the ratings ... Andy Warhol and PT Barnum were right..

[DieHard the Hunter]

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.

[Pietro]

Zahi Hawass,is a shameless self-promoter. I like how he says "I will reveal".

He's always there to gloom onto the work of others and to get his mug on TV.

[A. Patriot]

They will probably find the body of Jimmy Hoffa.

[JewishRighter]

I'm so excited, aren't you?

[true_blue_texican]

Hey Sunk,

thangs for the Ping. I'm looking forward to seeing this.

[poobear]

He'd better hope it is not just another load bearing wall, I mean door :D! That would be worth watching live!

[RightWhale]

people all over the world will know what is behind the second door in the southern shaft and the third door in the northern shaft

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.

[Zeroisanumber]

Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities...

And also an intractable badass when it comes to protecting Egypt's historical sites.

[SunkenCiv]

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