Origyptian Wrote:
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> Thanos5150 Wrote:
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>
> > Erdmann has told the German magazine Der Spiegel
> > that the scraping was not from the cartouche
> > itself, but rather a marking made with the same
> > pigment nearby...
> >
> > Included in the article are links to Gorlitz and Erdmann's
> > original interviews where they made these comments.
>
> Yes, they were quoted as saying they did
> not scrape the Khufu
> cartouche. So that contradicts
> Stower's contention that they said they did sample
> the cartouche before they said they didn't:
>
> "...and their statements about what they did
> are wildly contradictory: they sampled the
> cartouche/they did not sample the
> cartouche..."
>
> Where are "their statements"
> confirming that they sampled the Khufu cartouche?
>
>
> By the way, did you noticed the photo where
> Görlitz clearly is pointing to the "phyle" marks
> in the far corner and the caption refers to it as
> "Khufu's cartouche"? Wouldn't you agree that
> the media rather confused things in reporting this
> affair?

Femano.

Again.

Be told.

You were not following this at the time and you have not even begun to understand the chronology adequately.

As soon as Görlitz and Erdmann realised how much trouble they were in, they backpedalled wildly from statements made in the original publicity for their film (Das Cheops Projekt). The Spiegel story is one example of their doing this.

Görlitz and Erdmann and Höfer (collectively) contradicted themselves. That’s the whole point. No, Femano, the media did not confuse things; it was Görlitz and Erdmann and Höfer confused things.

Contrary to your misrepresentation, Frank Höfer was the producer and director of the film. Clearly he worked closely with Görlitz and Erdmann and it is profoundly unlikely that his statements in the crowdsourcing campaign were not vetted and authorised by them.

When the expletive hit the fan, a lot of the original publicity was pulled. Some of us anticipated this and saved the material before it happened.

Don’t presume to comment with your Johnny-come-lately “knowing better” conceit on something you know nothing about.

M.