Egypt
- Emails Re How The Pyramids Were Built
Someone sent me an email recently with their personal theory about how the Giza pyramids were built. In general I should probably explain that I receive a two or three "how they built the pyramids" emails a month. They are usually well thought out and...
- Site Management: Giza
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The site of Giza is one of the most visited sites in Egypt. Everyone who comes to Egypt visits the great pyramids that dominate the landscape here. In the past, the site was crowded, cars were everywhere and also people selling...
- Inverting The Pyramids
guardian.co.uk (Khaled Diab) The quack theories about my country's history can be very entertaining, with the all-time classic being that only aliens could have constructed something as magnificent and precise as the pyramids. Astoundingly, up to...
- Travel: A Trip To The Pyramids
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Michael Keating) A short but well written article about visiting the pyramids at Giza, which offers information about the pyramids as well as advice about the best way to visit them. Everyone has seen the photographs,...
- French Pyramid Theory Rejected
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ "Egyptian, German and US archaeological experts have rejected the theory of the French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Houdin about how the Giza Pyramids were built, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme...
Egypt
Complaint re teaching that Israelites built pyramids
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3370258,00.html
Head of the SCA, Zahi Hawass "has Hawass filed an official complaint to the Egyptian attorney general of Egypt against a Cairo high school for teaching the students that it was the Israelites who built the pyramids. Hawass, prominent figure in Egyptian culture and around the Arab world, criticized the school curriculum for 'insisting that the Jews built the pyramids and highlighting the fact that those who refused to partake in the building were physically tortured.'
The longstanding debate over who built the five pyramids of Giza, West of Cairo, was rekindled at the first official visit of an Israeli delegation to Egypt, in 1977."
Head of the SCA, Zahi Hawass "has Hawass filed an official complaint to the Egyptian attorney general of Egypt against a Cairo high school for teaching the students that it was the Israelites who built the pyramids. Hawass, prominent figure in Egyptian culture and around the Arab world, criticized the school curriculum for 'insisting that the Jews built the pyramids and highlighting the fact that those who refused to partake in the building were physically tortured.'
The longstanding debate over who built the five pyramids of Giza, West of Cairo, was rekindled at the first official visit of an Israeli delegation to Egypt, in 1977."
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- Emails Re How The Pyramids Were Built
Someone sent me an email recently with their personal theory about how the Giza pyramids were built. In general I should probably explain that I receive a two or three "how they built the pyramids" emails a month. They are usually well thought out and...
- Site Management: Giza
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The site of Giza is one of the most visited sites in Egypt. Everyone who comes to Egypt visits the great pyramids that dominate the landscape here. In the past, the site was crowded, cars were everywhere and also people selling...
- Inverting The Pyramids
guardian.co.uk (Khaled Diab) The quack theories about my country's history can be very entertaining, with the all-time classic being that only aliens could have constructed something as magnificent and precise as the pyramids. Astoundingly, up to...
- Travel: A Trip To The Pyramids
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Michael Keating) A short but well written article about visiting the pyramids at Giza, which offers information about the pyramids as well as advice about the best way to visit them. Everyone has seen the photographs,...
- French Pyramid Theory Rejected
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ "Egyptian, German and US archaeological experts have rejected the theory of the French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Houdin about how the Giza Pyramids were built, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme...