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Makes sense, the king dies unexpectedly, you need a tomb real quick. It probably takes years to dig these tombs and that's assuming you've found a suitable place to dig. You pick an existing tomb of a less popular ruler, wall of some sections (but maybe leave the artifacts?), renovate the new main chamber for him, and put a new name out front.
It's like those dilapidated buildings in NYC where the ground floor is some store but everything upstairs is basically uninhabitable decay. The store makes enough rental income to justify not renovating the upper floors into something actually usable.
I feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they're hiding aliens. i'm exhausted.
In the related articles sidebar there is an article from 2020:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y
There may well be a surfeit of articles, but at least in cancer research, we've had extraordinary progress recently. See, for example: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02745-5
While the popular press does bungle nearly all cancer research findings, the last 20 years have been unbelievably productive in cancer treatment. No, we haven't and aren't going to cure cancer any time soon.
Put your phone down, put your laptop down. Go to the park without your devices and lay on the grass under a tree.
Hear the sound of trees. The smell of nature. Feel the sun warming your face.
You mind will trick you, convince you "youre too busy for this", "youre hungry", "your back hurts you cant lie down", "you should be doing X", anything to not stay under the tree, dont resist those thoughts, just observe them as they fly by, but take no action on them.
Rest without guilt is a trait all masters must develop once they get past the adrenaline urgency phase of their skill mastery.
Dont take your devices, dont take a book, just sit, 3 hours minimum.
Go human, you are amazing!
Sounds amazing. Until the ants start crawling on me, my elbows itch from the grass, I hear planes flying overhead, an ambulance nearby, a souped out honda civic or some loud car in the distance, a freight train passing…that’s my backyard experience. It was a nice five minutes though :)
What is the physical limitation that prevents a very big metal detector from telling us if there’s gold or other signatures?
The balancing act between Egyptian tourism mystery golden goose eggs, and just cutting the pyramid in half.
This is a good question and there is a real practical answer. The tomb is not in a Pyramid but deep in a mountain reachable by a narrow stairway. You'd have to cut away or dig through the mountain to come close enough for a metal detector.
Or just stand on the other side of the wall?
The 10 year old inside me is so incredibly excited. My actual 10 year old self was obsessed with tombs and ancient Egypt. I remember a whole summer I couldn't stop thinking about and talking about the "Sphinx on the face of Mars". Thankfully these days I have friends, but I have been rewatching all of Stargate so this is very timely.
SG1, such a cool premis
KREE!
I've also been watching Stargate (on season 2), it's fun getting to know the Vancouver area as Jack and friends explore the galaxy but always end up in the PNW ;)
Just found this list of filming locatiobs.
https://rdanderson.com/stargate/locations/index.htm
sadly, the reboot got cancelled :(
So they're saying there's one tomb, that seems very real, that conceals a hidden entrance to another, larger tomb complex?
Okay, sure, explore away. But I'm not coming along, and if you find any jeweled skulls don't touch them.
Incidentally i always found the idea of an explorer grabbing the mysterious jewelled skull and getting cursed similar to the thought exercise of how we warn future cultures about the dangers of long term radioactive waste.
The warning needs to transcend language so you probably think a skull is pretty clear right? Put a big skull there, maybe make it light up or eye catching in some way just to really seal the deal? Surely they understand "don't go near this". Yet in a million years time you're probably going to get some explorer "finding the mysterious and cursed crystal skull" who will subsequently die of "the mysterious curse". It would have made a more interesting ending for that Indiana Jones movie that's for sure.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150912011810/http://www.wipp.e...
and
https://gwern.net/doc/technology/1993-trauth.pdf
A somewhat timely SMBC has the correct solution: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waste-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...
I kinda wish they had used
I feel that adorning the skull with jewels will puree the "No! No! NO!" message, in any epoch.
I’m thinking they paint it in reflecto paint like safety vests which of course would make it a sparkly jewel
The skull needs to be encrusted with the specific rare gem that can only be used in temples to the deity of death. That'll be impossible to misunderstand.
Lol wasn't that the unexpected, quasi-hated part of that movie -- that it did end up being a technological thing rather than another religious artifact? Not criticising your main point, but that's a pretty funny coincidence
this would have been a fun headline 20 years ago but as technology has improved, it's getting more and more absurd that we don't just have multiple datasets from different imaging methods of the whole entire structure.
Look no further than the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Nothing is allowed to proceed or be published without their sign off.
Yeah they have no interest in fast revealing everything at once. Egypt's GDP largely depends on these Antiquities so you want to mine them as slow as possible.
For anyone doubting this, take a look at Zahi Hawass’s (former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities) response to the ScanPyramids project. From wikipedia,
I have fond memories of reading National Geographic magazine growing up. I remember they had memorable issues with King Tut. And Ancient Egypt in general. Made me fall in love with learning about Ancient Egypt.
Anyone else here have fond memories of reading those old National Geographic issues?
Yes, I do, although I noticed that I had a hard time reading the text, the images were so interesting.
Absolutely. Extremely formative to my early years.
https://archive.is/Iw0JJ