Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > Yes, Femano, I can quite see that you’d give
> > “the benefit of the doubt” to a bumbling
> > criminal liar who shares your ideology.
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> And yet Vyse is not afforded the same "courtesy"....


"Courtesy" you say? Surely you're not referring to the courtesy Stower graciously extends to Scott by not waiting for his book to actually be published before he throttles into the vilification.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I absolutely did afford "the same courtesy" to Vyse. As a matter of fact, for many years Vyse became my fulcrum for wholeheartedly subscribing to the entire funerary context. Because of what I initially learned about Vyse, I believed G1 was built circa 2550 BC and was originally designed to be the tomb of Khufu -- I gave Vyse a rather broad benefit of the doubt about the veracity of his discovery.

But after years of seeing the evidence of funerary context dissolve before my eyes, after years of studying the oddities of the geometry of that cartouche, of having a greater understanding of the ancient implications of "Khnum-Khfu", the nautical context and the unfathomably proposed similarity between nautical indicator glyphs and the "phyle" glyphs of the funerary context with their entirely different "meaning", the growing shroud of mystery about the Beatrice and the handling of the sarcophagus, the absence of any corroborative witnesses outside of Vyse's team, the meager and damning details about the "insurance payout" (only a record of payout to ship a crate from Cairo to Alexandria but not all the way to the British Museum), and the (lack of) details regarding the transportation logistics, Vyse gradually forfeited that "benefit" in favor of "doubt".




Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 31-May-16 18:34 by Origyptian.