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Look no further than the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Nothing is allowed to proceed or be published without their sign off.

pandemic_region 15d ago
Yeah they have no interest in fast revealing everything at once. Egypt's GDP largely depends on these Antiquities so you want to mine them as slow as possible.
- itopaloglu83 15d ago
  Do you blame them for trying to protect and control things? It might be a little extreme, but we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun.
  - mcphage 15d ago
    > we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun And eat them, which... that's just like, really fucking weird.
    - OoooooooO 14d ago
      Didn't they also crushed parts of them and snorted the powder at parties for fun?
      - krapp 14d ago
        And they made them into paint called "mummy brown." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
        defrost 14d ago
        Both uses were immortalised in music by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the mid(?) 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs
  - BurningFrog 14d ago
    Controlling physical artefacts is fine. Stopping any science results that may be contrary to the Egyptian government's official view of history is awful!
derektank 15d ago
For anyone doubting this, take a look at Zahi Hawass’s (former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities) response to the ScanPyramids project. From wikipedia, > On November 2, 2017, the Egyptologist Zahi Hawass told the New York Times: "They found nothing...This paper offers nothing to Egyptology. Zero." Later, once the North Face Corridor was inspected with an Endoscope, Hawass conversely commented that ScanPyramids's work had provided a "major discovery" that would "enter houses and homes of people all over the world for the first time".

pandemic_region 15d ago

Yeah they have no interest in fast revealing everything at once. Egypt's GDP largely depends on these Antiquities so you want to mine them as slow as possible.

itopaloglu83 15d ago
Do you blame them for trying to protect and control things? It might be a little extreme, but we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun.
- mcphage 15d ago
  > we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun And eat them, which... that's just like, really fucking weird.
  - OoooooooO 14d ago
    Didn't they also crushed parts of them and snorted the powder at parties for fun?
    - krapp 14d ago
      And they made them into paint called "mummy brown." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
      - defrost 14d ago
        Both uses were immortalised in music by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the mid(?) 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs
- BurningFrog 14d ago
  Controlling physical artefacts is fine. Stopping any science results that may be contrary to the Egyptian government's official view of history is awful!

derektank 15d ago

For anyone doubting this, take a look at Zahi Hawass’s (former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities) response to the ScanPyramids project. From wikipedia, > On November 2, 2017, the Egyptologist Zahi Hawass told the New York Times: "They found nothing...This paper offers nothing to Egyptology. Zero." Later, once the North Face Corridor was inspected with an Endoscope, Hawass conversely commented that ScanPyramids's work had provided a "major discovery" that would "enter houses and homes of people all over the world for the first time".