THE LOST COMMON SENSE: When one World Wonder isn’t enough
Lately, it seems that something transcendental has been lost in Egypt, only to be found by the Supreme Council of Antiquities under the direction of Zahi Hawass, with the aid, of course, of the producers of TV mega documentaries from the Discovery Channel and National Geographic.
According to Hawass, only one third of ancient Egypt’s archaeological legacy has been found, leaving room for plenty of new discoveries. Strangely, though, these “new” discoveries inevitably involve someone or something extraordinary and widely known, such as “The Lost Tomb”, “The Lost Queen”, “Nefertiti Resurrected”, you get the picture.
The latest amazing discovery is nothing less than a pyramid mightier than “The Horizon of Khufu”.
History Channel will soon introduce us to the Fourth Pyramid of Giza, “The Lost Pyramid” of King Djedefre, a monumental structure that according to the show’s computer-generated reconstruction, must have astonished the ancient world beyond the Great Pyramid, already regarded in its time as one of the Wonders of the World.
The “lost pyramid” is today a pile of rocks located about five miles of the Giza plateau. The existence of this structure is known since the 19th century, but archaeologists have not been able to properly investigate it, since it is presently located in a military security zone.
What we may surmise from the trailer is that the “lost pyramid” shall be exalted as a structure even higher than Khufu’s, with no emphasis on the fact that the supposed pyramid, whose category has been questioned by Egyptologist Vassil Dobrev of Cairo’s French Institute of Archaeology, is built upon a hill that contributes to its height advantage, and that its absolute size is about half of that of its much more famous “relative”.
No doubt History Channel’s “The Lost Pyramid” will be cleared of its sands by those gust winds sound effects that give expectators an exciting rush that inevitably leaves us cold and hungry for the facts. Certainly, Zahi Hawass’s interventions will provide the carefully measured dose of credibility to this megalomaniac tale of fanciful technology and royal family intrigues.
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