Giza Caves

[kbs2244]

From today’s news

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/1 ... -giza.html

Seems like a rediscovery.

I cannot believe this quote

Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has dismissed the discovery.
"There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We know everything about the plateau," he stated.

[Minimalist]

Hawass spouting Club doctrine, as usual.

[Sam Salmon]

Hawass spouting Club doctrine, as usual.

'Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain'!

[Forum Monk]

If you guys want to give Andrew Collins and Nigel Skinner Simpson, more legitimacy than Hawass, you're throwing the baby out with the bath water. Hawass may be mainstream but Collins and Simpson are sensationalists, hell-bent on selling books. You are definitely in the wrong corner on this one.

[Minimalist]

I don't know about that, Monk, but to categorically state that there is nothing left to discover on Giza strikes me as flatout silly.

Sometimes Zahi seems to just like to hear himself talk.

[Frank Harrist]

Those guys may be full of it but Zahi's statement is ridiulous. Like when they wanted to close the patent office because there were no more inventions to be had. It's like saying "I have a PHD, I know everything now".

[Rokcet Scientist]

It's like removing the traffic mirrors at small intersections because there's never an accident there anyway.

[Digit]

That statement will come back to haunt Hawass sometime in the future that's for sure.
Limestone caves, means flowing water? Hmmm!

Roy.

[Minimalist]

I visited a nearby cave system and I could swear the guide said "dripping water," as in, rain water seeps through the rock and slowly builds up the rock formations.

[Digit]

Can't see how that could produce a cave system though Min.

Roy.

[Minimalist]

I suspect he was talking more about the stalagmites, etc. Obviously, the "cave" had to be there first but running water would interfere with the development of the formations.

I do remember that the humidity in that cave was close to 100% though. Very tough on us desert-dwellers.