Max Channon

Former journalist and news editor who's taking a break from the world of work for a while.

[Max Channon @maxc73]

It's not every day the Secretary General of a health professionals' association credits a story you broke with helping to change Government policy and The Chancellor's Budget within days of it being released.
Journalism still matters.
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[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 To quote The Talking Heads... The same as it ever was... And for so many different issues. 😔
Anyway, thanks for your time Justine. A pleasure engaging with you, again.

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 I see. So where does the "legal" stuff come from? Private collections, or the (what I'd like to think are) Raiders of the Lost Ark-style storage facilities?

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 Yes, and that's the great pity. If artefacts are being 'legally' sold to private collectors, money should be used for archaeology - not lining people's pockets. Perhaps fault lies with the authorities for allowing this situation to persist, for reasons we can probably guess 🙄.

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 Especially if the money raised is used to fund more archaeological work, rather than disappearing elsewhere? That seems like a win-win.

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 It's a complex situation re artefacts being sold 'legally'. Playing devil's advocate, if they're going to disappear into 'storage facilities' and be forgotten/'lost'... are they better off in hands of private collectors, where they may be studied and displayed occasionally?

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 Yeah, I hear that. Probably not helped by accusations being thrown the other way though, re some of the 'Schroedinger' vases - which are simultaneously modern forgeries and looted artifact 😉

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 Would that suggest it was built as a symbolic tomb of Osiris (Hawass hypothesis) - but much earlier than 26th Dynasty he posits? If it was built in 6th D, tomb should be empty as Osiris was "resurrected". Remains/Mummy added in 26th D, hoping for sweet Osiris heka mojo?

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 Thanks, J. Yes, 26th dynasty re-use is what I thought a plausible explanation - but that would also mean tomb is much older. And yes, inaccurate to describe as Mummy, but not as inaccurate as stating it was completely empty 😉 - and misleading when it could be remains of Mummy.

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 Also, given the complex appears to date back to 6th dynasty at least, could remains be 26th Dynasty addition - perhaps the mummy of someone who wanted to be resurrected, in what 26th dynasty Egyptians may have believed was the tomb of Osiris? It's a shame they weren't C-14 dated

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 Ha! Yeah, sounds like Hawass. My point re the remains is could they have beena mummy, degraded by centuries in the water? Saying there is "no mummy" seems too certain, given context. Also, why would a symbolic tomb for Osiris, who was 'resurrected', contain anything at all?

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@adancingferret @4gottnHistory @piersmorgan @BrightInsight6 To be fair, Justine. Hawass has described it as the biggest discovery of his career. It does seem odd he is now saying the sarcophagus was completely empty.
Also, wasn't the sarcophagus under water for centuries? Would a mummy survive that? Or would it just be skeletal remains?

[Max Channon @maxc73]

At the very least, there's irony in accusing someone of “dog whistling” while making a coded insinuation. If Dan thinks a phrase carries specific meaning, he should say so plainly & explain why. Don’t hint, block when challenged, & then question someone’s professional ethics.

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@soilmandan @Graham__Hancock
Blocking someone then questioning their professional ethics is poor. My article covered neo-Nazi video, white supremacist use of GH’s work, and academic criticism. Right of reply isn't 'softballing'; it's ethical reporting.

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[Max Channon @maxc73]

@SoilManDan @FlintDibble @Graham__Hancock @ArchaeologistEd It seems me like you're the one doing the dog whistling, Dan.

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@SoilManDan @FlintDibble @Graham__Hancock @ArchaeologistEd What are you suggesting, Dan?

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@BrightInsight6 As others have said, it seems to be the pot shards that are 6th dynasty - scarabs etc are attributed to New Kingdom.
Regarding the 'no mummy, just skeletal remains' issue: if the sarcophagus was submerged in water for centuries, would a mummy survive - or just bones?

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@BrightInsight6 Could it be these were remains added to what New Kingdom Egyptians genuinely believed was the tomb of Osiris, as it dates to at least the Old Kingdom - in the hope whoever they belonged to would also be resurrected?

[Max Channon @maxc73]

@BrightInsight6 Osiris was, as I understand the myth, resurrected after his remains, which had been scattered around Egypt by Set, were gathered up and laid to rest in a tomb. If this is a recreation of that tomb from the New Kingdom, why were remains added, undermining the resurrection myth?