{"id":405937,"date":"2010-03-08T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-4863937667741854720"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:30:33","slug":"time-for-the-great-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405937","title":{"rendered":"Time for the Great Pyramid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archaeology.org\/blog\/?p=903\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/archaeology.org\/blog\/?p=903\">Archaeology Magazine<\/a> (Mark Rose)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like any scientific research, the methods, data, and conclusions presented in JAMA can now be evaluated and debated. Right now, for example, I am working on a short piece about the results to go into our May\/June issue. There\u2019s something I\u2019m checking about one point of the DNA analysis, and I wish that more of the CT scan-bone interpretation side of the study had been presented here. The implication of malaria as a cause in Tut\u2019s death seems speculative\u2014he might have had it earlier and survived. In places, what\u2019s in the JAMA  paper seems to have been overplayed in the media. Tut\u2019s widely reported \u201ccleft palette\u201d is actually a partially cleft palette and within the normal range of variation.<\/p>\n<p>But the point is that Hawass and colleagues have done the science and put the results out there for discussion. That\u2019s how it should work. Interestingly, a week or two back I received in the mail a copy of Khufu\u2019s Pyramid Revealed from architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, whose investigations into the possible use of an internal spiral ramp in the construction of the Great Pyramid were featured in Bob Brier\u2019s article \u201cHow to Build a Pyramid\u201d (May\/June 2007) and update \u201cReturn to the Great Pyramid\u201d (July\/August 2009). Though I have only known Houdin for a few years, his passion and boundless energy for this topic strike me as quite similar to Hawass\u2019s.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-4863937667741854720?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeology Magazine (Mark Rose) Like any scientific research, the methods, data, and conclusions presented in JAMA can now be evaluated and debated. Right now, for example, I am working on a short piece about the results to go into our May\/June issue. There\u2019s something I\u2019m checking about one point of the DNA analysis, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}