 | 17 September 2002 |
Egyptians, robotics and resting places
Calling all budding Indianna Jones. If you've got National Geographic Channel switch over now and observe the remote camera being sent by robot up the shaft of an Ancient Egyptian pyramid. Egyptian Pyramid Mysteries to Be Explored Live on TV. Also they're excavating the tomb of an 'overseer' - a kind of town organiser. Understandably it's difficult to get through to the live webcast of the robot's ascent page, try channel 505 on NTL if you have it. The egyptologist controlling operations looks like a kid in a sweetie shop he's only too eager to break the seal on the sarcophagus. I must admit, I don't mind them exploring buildings but I'm not at all happy with them breaking opening in the tombs what would be our equivalents of coffins. I'd go as far as to say it's desecration of a burial place, no better than those boys who trashed the graveyard. It may not be Christianity but I think the dead deserve a bit of dignity and a peaceful resting place, not to be gawped at and prodded, it's a human being not an object. R.I.P.Well they they quickly get their just deserts, when one door opens...another one closes, after boring through one blocked part of the shaft the team stick the camera through the hole in the granite to reveal...another blockage in the shaft. The ancients are trying to tell you something....KEEP OUT! 1:53:10 AM
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