Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> "Egyptologists will be dumbstruck by this news"
>
> why is it so readily assumed that Egyptologists
> are incapable of absorbing new information?
>
> Considering that the process of becoming a
> lettered Egyptologist has more academic
> prerequisites than that of a heart surgeon I find
> statements like the above to be nothing more than
> complete nonsense.
>
> Egyptologists FEED on any smidgeon of evidence
> like's it's Ambrosia

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This news was discussed about 5+ days ago on the Egyptologists Electronic Forum [EEF], and based upon the scant information given in the article, the general feeling is one of guarded scepticism until more news becomes available - as it should be.

It was pointed out on EEF that a similar discovery in the same area referred to in the article has been written about before.

So until Mssrs. Borda and Marai publish something of more substance, it will be difficult, I think, for most Egyptologists to even "feed" on this smidgeon of Ambrosia, such as it is.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2007 03:08AM by Katherine Griffis-Greenberg.