Rocket Surgeon
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Montana Smith said:Whilst
I really like that word. I've seen it in The Raven before, but not for some time.
Montana Smith said:Whilst
Rocket Surgeon said:I really like that word. I've seen it in The Raven before, but not for some time.
Yure said:I've been reading a lot of (and about) Hawass in preparation to a trip to Cairo I took in April (managed to get into the Great Pyramid too ). He's rated as one of the two or three best egyptologysts in the world according to... well... him. I do admire his passion and I do believe he's quite educated on the matter, but Egypt as far as I could see (been there twice, I'll be back to Cairo in a couple of weeks on my way to Thailand) is still quite undeveloped in many, many ways. I'm talking about welfare, quality of life, urban and social development. When you're Secretary General of archeology in a country like Egypt you can't, for the sake of knowledge, research and history, afford to keep a nationalist profile and be a media hog for your personal gain. It affects archeology and culture. He should oppose the conservative bias of Egyptian government and open to true international funding and peer research instead of monopolizing the field and deniying European and American researches that could unveil much more than we actually know.
Matt deMille said:He even makes a fool of himself often when doggedly defending long disproven beliefs (the Great Pyramid being a tomb, for example).
Attila the Professor said:Now, to be fair, RA...that was posted a few weeks ago, before Matt admitted that he may have been wrong about the fact that pyramids were built to be tombs.
Perhilion said:I love watching this guy, he flips out so much! And his show shows that archaeology is actually exciting, not all toothbrushes and dust.
ResidentAlien said:Oops-- right, right. Didn't see the date.
Matt deMille said:One would think that, when you insult another poster and are then corrected by a Moderator, you might apologize. Oddly, I don't see that here. Something I'd like folks to keep in mind when reading anything this guy says about me.
ResidentAlien said:No, you just want to make a scene.
Yure said:I've been reading a lot of (and about) Hawass in preparation to a trip to Cairo I took in April (managed to get into the Great Pyramid too ). He's rated as one of the two or three best egyptologysts in the world according to... well... him. I do admire his passion and I do believe he's quite educated on the matter, but Egypt as far as I could see (been there twice, I'll be back to Cairo in a couple of weeks on my way to Thailand) is still quite undeveloped in many, many ways. I'm talking about welfare, quality of life, urban and social development. When you're Secretary General of archeology in a country like Egypt you can't, for the sake of knowledge, research and history, afford to keep a nationalist profile and be a media hog for your personal gain. It affects archeology and culture. He should oppose the conservative bias of Egyptian government and open to true international funding and peer research instead of monopolizing the field and deniying European and American researches that could unveil much more than we actually know.