no. NO NO NO

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Nevermind, it was Discovery Channel...same shit, less drama. Definitely worth a watch though. It was freaking cool how they did it.

http://www.drhawass.com/events/quest-hatshepsut-discovering-mummy-egypts-greatest-female-pharaoh

Thanks Suu!

I only remember one specific special with Dr. Hawass, and if I recall, it was excavating the Tomb of Osiris, which was kinda cool. I think it was live, so they had to cut it short, but it was a nice touch.

-Memory may be fuzzy. This was in the late 90s.

[Suu]

I think GS said that one of his professors worked with Dr. Hawass...and that he really is a cantankerous egotistical know-it-all...but that he has a total right to be. He really is that brilliant.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I think GS said that one of his professors worked with Dr. Hawass...and that he really is a cantankerous egotistical know-it-all...but that he has a total right to be. He really is that brilliant.

That makes me like him more. 

[Chairman Risus]

Did you see the show he did in which he did find Queen Hatshepsut in a completely random mummy within the Cairo Museum, even though they had to do all that excavating in the Valley of the Kings? Yeah...That took something like 7 years worth of work, and they boiled it down to a 2 hour special. ~_~

I don't think I'd want to watch a seven year special.

[Remington]

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Fucking greys.  Don't do that.

[BadBeast]

We had UKTV History Channel, but they didn't seem to realise that quite a lot of UK History happened before 1939, and  after 1945.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

We had UKTV History Channel, but they didn't seem to realise that quite a lot of UK History happened before 1939, and  after 1945.

Well, you guys were pretty uninteresting between 1814 and 1914, since you weren't involved in any American wars and such. Maybe if you guys picked a side in the Civil War, you would have more history.

Blight,
-Going with the prevailing American thought that history is a list of wars involving the US starting from 1492.

[BadBeast]

Well, you guys were pretty uninteresting between 1814 and 1914, since you weren't involved in any American wars and such. Maybe if you guys picked a side in the Civil War, you would have more history.

Blight,
-Going with the prevailing American thought that history is a list of wars involving the US starting from 1492.

We'd already 'picked sides' in a Civil War, and that didn't really work out, because we ended up with Cromwell. And if we'd picked sides in your little fracas, it wouldn't have been a Civil War, would it?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

We'd already 'picked sides' in a Civil War, and that didn't really work out, because we ended up with Cromwell. And if we'd picked sides in your little fracas, it wouldn't have been a Civil War, would it?

Your Civil War counts as an American war, since parts of the US were British colonies at the time.
Also, our Civil War being called a Civil War is a matter of perspective. Suthnuhs call it the War of Northern Aggression. I'm ok with calling it the War of Southern Failure/the American War/the Confederate War/Yankee-Dixie Throwdown. If you got involved we could have called it Embarassing British Loss War III. Doesn't matter. The Empire didn't get involved and was therefore irrelevant to world history at the time 

[BadBeast]

We were far too busy exploiting the more civilised parts of the Empire to be bothered about a few ex-colonials squabbling between themselves. Like you say, irrelevant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWF3S9OgQho

[Nephew Twiddleton]

We were far too busy exploiting the more civilised parts of the Empire to be bothered about a few ex-colonials squabbling between themselves. Like you say, irrelevant.

Are you implying that Canada, Australia and Ireland were more civilized? 

[BadBeast]

Are you implying that Canada, Australia and Ireland were more civilized? 

I wasn't, but now you mention it, yeah. I was thinking more India and South Africa.

[Suu]

I wasn't, but now you mention it, yeah. I was thinking more India and South Africa.

INJUH! THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN, I SAY!

[Cain]

OK, I'm better now.

Firstly, yes, I agree with whoever it was who said the History Channel was definitely trying to catch the 2012/Anunnaki/Reptilian Shapeshifter demographic.  Having done my socioLOLogy field work amongst such tribes, for a number of years, I could hardly deny the markers are all there.

Also, there was actually something potentially interesting in the documentary, which could have led into proper High Wierdness territory...but the History Channel fucked it up (no surprise there).  This structure they were looking at in Poland, and the "bell" that accompanied it...well, that is the same structure and device as described in Nick Cook's The Hunt for Zero Point.  Cook, as opposed to the people the History Channel is trying to attract is not a crank, but a highly respected journalist working for Jane's Defence News.  In his book, he described how he tries to follow the trail of of anti-gravity research through history (finding some very surprising results along the way, as well as some rather scared people) and his journey ends up in that Polish forest, trying to ascertain the purpose of the "Bell".

He never comes to a firm conclusion.  But it's a hell of a lot more interesting than where this episode went: "Nazis locked themselves in the Bell and transported themselves through time LOLOLOLOL.  We know this is possible because Einstein proved time travel can happen".  Except for the fact he didn't, and Nazis discounted Einstein's theories as false "Jewish science", opposed to true "Aryan science" and it being utterly insane, it's a great theory with a lot going for it.