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to wit..."Guardian: I'm sure that you're aware that Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock are publicly saying negative things about you and others who oversee the treasures of ancient Egypt?
Dr. Hawass: Yes, it is unfortunate the things they are saying. For example, Hancock and Bauval are asking people to sign petitions to stop secretive work at Giza. But there is no secret work at Giza! Any research project is approved both by the Permanent Committee of the Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) and by our Security Department. For each project is appointed an inspector from the SCA Giza Inspectorate. At the conclusion of fieldwork, both the inspector and the expedition director must submit a report to the Inspectorate and to the offices of the SCA.
Of course, for Hancock and Bauval to suggest some kind of conspiracy at Giza helps them sell books. Thus they profit from the pyramids while in Egypt we struggle to conserve these treasures. While they turn out one profitable book after another about lost civilizations and attack us for conspiring to conceal the truth, the truth is that we are in an urgent struggle to save these world heritage monuments, and do not have time to deal with all of their theories. We are certainly not helped by their attacks."
1997
Warwick
" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
association on these boards is the broad
misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."
Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019