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Martin Stower Wrote:
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> Görlitz to blame Hawass for his bad press is a
> breathtaking piece of effrontery—much as we might
> expect of a man with the brass neck to enter a
> UNESCO World Heritage Site and bash away with a
> chisel at the inscriptions.
The arguments put forward in their defence during
range">the third James Swagger interview with Robert Bauval were that:
a) it wasn't premeditated (something that was first said some weeks ago);
b) Erdmann was apprehensive about the rickety ladder, and didn't follow Gorlitz and the cameraman into the relieving chambers (9:45);
c) the pieces of paint were only microscopic (in which case, one can't help thinking that Gorlitz might just as well not have bothered with his unauthorised activities, given that the Institut Fresenius' position appears to be that he didn't bring back enough paint for them to work with anyway);
d) (10:40) why is such a fuss being made about these microscopic flakes of paint, when, allegedly, graffiti
of modern date - i.e., from the time when Zahi Hawass was in charge of the SCA - are scrawled higgledy-piggledy across the walls in the chamber (12:57)?
e) the inscription from which the microscopic flakes of paint were taken is argued to be "of no real historical significance", and were merely examples of "workers having fun" (12:39).
f) Bauval decries the "nonsense about dates of 15,000 or 20,000 years" being disseminated on the internet (14:11), on the grounds that the samples have not yet been tested; the eventual results would not be released without the permission of the Egyptian authorities. (And, as we know - or, at least, are given to understand - the samples have indeed not been tested ... not because the Egyptian authorities have withheld permission, though: but because the samples are too small to test.)
g) "Let's get our story right", says Bauval (11:25), proceeding - for at least the third time in these interviews - to refer to Vyse's exploration of the GP taking place "in 1835" ...
> I can only suppose that Robert Bauval badly wants
> Görlitz and Erdmann as friendly witnesses in his
> case against Hawass. Good luck with that one,
> Robert! They won’t be going to Egypt.
The fact is that, even if every square inch of the relieving chambers was smothered in unauthorised examples of "I Heart Justin Bieber for evah" in Day-Glo paint, it still doesn't excuse or justify the taking of samples without permission.
Other people now seem to have joined this particular fray. One can only wonder about what particular agendas they might have.
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