Egypt

Computer trickery builds fake history

The Inquirer (Nick Farrell)

THE OBSESSION OF historical documentary makers to come up with new things to show off their swish computer graphics is getting out of hand, according to Newsweek.

The History Channel is about to release a sensational story about a "Lost Pyramid" of Giza that it is found which is taller than the Great Pyramid but had been lost below the desert sands. The show will include some flash computer graphics of what the lost Pyramid would have been like.

The only problem is that is neither lost, taller than the Great Pyramid, in Giza, nor indeed even a Pyramid.

The pyramid was found a century ago. The only reason that it has not been explored much is because it is part because the pyramid sits close to a military exclusion zone, While it may appear larger than the Great Pyramid it is because it sits on a hill. In fact the Great Pyramid is more than twice as tall.

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