Egyptian, US and German experts have refuted French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Houdin's theory about how the Pyramids were built, said Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawass.

In statements on Wednesday 09/05/2007, Hawass said the experts believe Jean-Pierre Houdin's theory lacks scientific and practical bases.

Hawass said he met with two German and US archaeologists over Houdin's theory.

The archaeologists stressed that the theory lacked the scientific bases and only relied on inaccurate grounds, he added.

French theory on Pyramids building refuted, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, May 10, 2007.

Previously:

How to Build a Pyramid, April 09, 2007.

The inside [out] story, April 07, 2007.

Great Pyramid Built Inside Out, French Architect Says, April 03, 2007.

Ancient riddle of the Great Pyramid's construction is turned inside out, March 30, 2007.

Real-time 3D Helps to Finally Solve the Mystery of the Great Pyramid of Kheops!, March 30, 2007.

Star Wars creator George Lucas is going back in time to oversee a slew of new TV documentaries for America's The History Channel. The movie mogul is behind six upcoming specials for the cable network, including films about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Egyptology, soothsayer Nostradamus and ancient China. Lucas has also commissioned documentaries about global warming and fundamentalist Islam for the network.

Lucas makes a date with History Channel specials, Contact Music, UK, April 30, 2007.

The diplomatic row between Germany and Egypt over the 2,400-year-old bust of the beautiful Queen Nefertiti is heating up. Berlin's refusal to allow her to travel is "unacceptable" says Cairo.

She may be 3,400-year-old foreigner, but she is still one of Berlin's best-known beauties. Her delicate features adorn posters all over town; there's an entire calendar devoted to her entrancing image; and thousands flock to the city's museum island each day just to catch a glimpse of her. Now, Egypt wants her back...

"We will make the lives of these museums miserable," Zahi Hawass ... threatened in April. "It will be a scientific war."

Hawass stepped up his campaign last week, asking five other museums in Germany, Great Britain, France and the US to loan iconic Egyptian artefacts ... for the opening of Egypt's National Museum in 2011.

Perhaps not coincidentally, the objects are all on a wish list of objects that Hawass would like to see permanently returned to Egypt — an index he has made public on numerous occasions. Like the Nefertiti bust, which was discovered in late 1912 by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt, most made their way out of Egypt in a time when antiquities laws were flexible at best...

Beauty of the Nile Trapped on the Spree, Andrew Curry, Spiegel, Germany, May 10, 2007.

They had antiseptics, bandages and even laxatives a good 3,000 years before the first Hippocratic oath was sworn.

But the ancient Egyptians have been ignored by historians, who instead credit the Greeks with creating the foundations of modern medicine.

Now researchers at Manchester University have uncovered new evidence that Egyptians were practising scientifically-valid medicine 1,000 years before the earliest Greek doctor.

Scientists studied 3,500-year-old papyrus scrolls which give detailed accounts of plants and herbs used to treat illness at the time of the Pharaohs...

Experts say the Egyptians ... had a detailed understanding of how the body worked...

Egypt was mummy of medicine, Yakub Qureshi, Manchester Evening News, UK, May 10, 2007.

Previously:

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine, May 09, 2007.

Geomatics company, Plowman Craven, purchased a robust EuroPac Metrology laser scanning system to investigate mummies in the Bahariya Oasis, located in Egypt's Western Desert...

The first test for the EuroPac system was to scan recently discovered mummies in the Bahariya Oasis, located in Egypt's Western Desert.

Plowman Craven 3D were commissioned to undertake high-definition close range scanning of some of the most important mummies from the site, as well as the tombs in which they were found, as an important visualisation and conservation record of these amazing remains.

The flexibility of EuroPac's technology allowed for quick and easy set-ups in conditions and environments previously untested by such systems.

The captured data was real-time visualised in EuroPac's reverse engineering software and 3D rapid models were created whilst on-site.

Archaeologists are now able to monitor any degradation of the mummies that may incur due to their movement from the tombs or purely due to the passing of time...

Laser scanning system for Egyptian mummies, Manufacturing Talk, UK, May 10, 2007.