Mark_Lehner

When you want it to be.

Yes. I think the discoveries in Gobleki Tepi are changing all archaeologists understanding of ancient civilizations and the human career. I wish I had more time to learn more about them.

Nope, I do agree with the sentiment that the Egyptian government is actively blocking research which may reveal links between the pyramids and other (non-Egyptian) cultures. Although I know some think so. The Egyptian government is generous and supportive in granting research concessions to archaeological missions from other countries.

Yes, I know. But NOVA films are always special, and a cut above. Here we tried to pull together all the new evidence and understandings from several directions. Not least, the Wadi el-Jarf Papyri, which include accounts and a log book - an actual diary! - of one team actually working on building Khufu's Pyramids. Real people, names, individuals in history. Those papyri are like opening a window onto the people building the last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World.

I can't speak for all mummies. I haven't sniffed but a few. But once I had to map a labyrinth of shafts, passages, and chambers cut out of the bedrock and stacked with cat mummies - at Saqqara. In one chamber, cat mummies were stacked up like cordwood. They smelled like dirty socks, socks worn but not washed for a week or two.