17 New Pyramids Found

[Dave]

The press were clamouring on the doors of Californian Gold Rush miners??

I expect the telegraph office was about to close.

 

[Peter Graham]

What could possibly make archeological evidence worth suppressing?

Nothing.

If alien evidence is extremely unpleasant, should it be suppressed?

No

If archaeological evidence leads irrevocably to extremely unpleasant alien evidence, should the whole lot be deep-sixed?

That's a huge "if", but no.

You are the man, the big man in black, who makes these calls, and it has to happen now, today, because the press are clammering at the door.
Truth or lie, which is the sane, healthy choice?

Truth. If I was the big man in black, I'd know that following the decline in manufacturing, everyone in the UK now has to work in the service sector or for the government. That means that loads of people would know we had hidden alien archaeology. Because they are all on temporary contracts, there'd be a steady stream of folk leaving government jobs in order to pursue their singing and dancing careers on Britain Hasn't Got A Right Lot Of Talent. The bucket would be leakier than a torn tea bag. You can't even nick a paper clip in Whitehall these days without there being an inquiry and a senior cabinet minster dispatched to Radio 4 to talk about "learning lessons".

Regards,

Peter

 

[Vertigo]

They did begin digging at a couple of the sites identified by the satellite survey, test trenches only at this stage I think. IIRC one maybe shows promise whilst the other looks like being no more than a wall enclosing a square area. Then all the turmoil started and it is unlikely they will be starting anything new for a while. First they have to clear up the mess and assess the damage of all the looting that took place using the turmoil as cover; unfortunately there was quite a bit of it.

Edit: I would also add that far from suppressing anything Dr Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Director of Antiquities, was sufficiently impressed to rush through the permissions for those couple of digs, getting the permissions in what was for Egypt an astonishingly short time.

 

[j d worthington]

While I don't agree with Dr. Hawass' actions on certain things now and again, the vast majority of the time I think he is one of the best things to happen to archaeology for a loooong while....

 

[Vertigo]

That's almost exactly the way I see him. He has done so much to protect Egypt's archaeology, some might say too much sometimes, but with something like that it makes sense to err on the side of caution. He must be absolutely gutted by the damage done during the revolution.

 

[the smiling weirwood]

Some people love conspiracy theories, don't they?

The real truth is that if anything was to go missing, it would be portable artifacts that would then be routed through Switzerland before being sold at auction in London and New York. Looting and destruction of archaeological sites by desperate and/or unscrupulous locals has only increased in recent years.

 

[Esioul]

Go to an archaeology conference these days, half of the papers are focused around GIS and remote sensing