Ben van Kerkwyk
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No, he actually, because he said that...
There was a lot of international outcry for that very reason.
And then, in fact, the government formed a tribunal to figure out what to do.
The tribunal was headed by Zahi Huas, and he lost his job.
Don't restore pyramids, bro.
Nobody wants to see the restored pyramids.
They want to see what's left.
Well, we can use our imaginations too.
They are restoring a lot of things.
I don't necessarily agree with this either.
Things that are actively falling apart, sure, you need to buttress them.
Like a lot of this wall.
So this is part of the middle pyramid complex at Giza.
And there's a lot of...
Blocks like this, there are limestone blocks that are 11, 12 meters long, like four meters wide, you know, two, 300 tons that were stacked up on top of each other.
And they eroded so greatly on the inside that they've actually fallen over.
At some point in antiquity, they've fallen off.