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  • What happened to all that nutty looking "giant complex found under pyramids" stuff from last year that went mega-viral?

    https://www.egypttoursportal.com/egypt-tourism-news/study-fi...

    by qingcharles
  • I feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they're hiding aliens. i'm exhausted.
    by crustyoldhuman
  • Interesting, I read about excavations in beginning of 20th century on Wiki:

    > In protest of the government's increasing restrictions, Carter and his associates stopped work in February 1924, beginning a legal dispute that lasted until January 1925. Under the agreement that resolved the dispute, the artefacts from the tomb would not be divided between the government and the dig's sponsors, as had been standard practice on previous Egyptological digs.

    Why they did have a rule that private persons can take away the artifacts? It would be better not to dig anything.

    by codedokode
  • this would have been a fun headline 20 years ago but as technology has improved, it's getting more and more absurd that we don't just have multiple datasets from different imaging methods of the whole entire structure.
    by skiing_crawling
  • I have fond memories of reading National Geographic magazine growing up. I remember they had memorable issues with King Tut. And Ancient Egypt in general. Made me fall in love with learning about Ancient Egypt.

    Anyone else here have fond memories of reading those old National Geographic issues?

    by ViktorRay
  • So they're saying there's one tomb, that seems very real, that conceals a hidden entrance to another, larger tomb complex?

    Okay, sure, explore away. But I'm not coming along, and if you find any jeweled skulls don't touch them.

    by GolfPopper
  • Makes sense, the king dies unexpectedly, you need a tomb real quick. It probably takes years to dig these tombs and that's assuming you've found a suitable place to dig. You pick an existing tomb of a less popular ruler, wall of some sections (but maybe leave the artifacts?), renovate the new main chamber for him, and put a new name out front.

    It's like those dilapidated buildings in NYC where the ground floor is some store but everything upstairs is basically uninhabitable decay. The store makes enough rental income to justify not renovating the upper floors into something actually usable.

    by wildzzz
  • The 10 year old inside me is so incredibly excited. My actual 10 year old self was obsessed with tombs and ancient Egypt. I remember a whole summer I couldn't stop thinking about and talking about the "Sphinx on the face of Mars". Thankfully these days I have friends, but I have been rewatching all of Stargate so this is very timely.
    by jamwise

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