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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unrelated, but it would be a very cool project to restore the pyramids to the white gold tipped triangles that they used to be.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Egypt will never allow it. They want their cashcow to be in status quo forever so they can milk them dry. They're not even allowing research into other, currently unknown chambers (which were found to be there, just never opened)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

They tried to restore the Pyramid of Menkaure by adding granite stones to the exterior, but they stopped because of social media pushback.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/controversial-egypt-pyramid-renovation-rolled-back/story?id=106892273

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

They'd be better off building a brand new one anyway. With an observation deck, but you have to climb like 5 thousand stairs to get to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, an upgraded cash cow is still a cash cow, so that's not the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

dude that was like three days ago lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I wrote it because it was relevant to the discussion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Source? I'm not doubting you. I'm just surprised that the government would limit research, probably for political reasons.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They banned destrucive research for new rooms, because some researcher decade ago, enthusiastically drilled a bunch of holes to nowhere in order to do find them.

They still allowed the non destructive muon imaging a few year ago that heavily hinted to an unfound room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

But they won't allow opening it, so yah.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I guess we'll just have to build new ones!