Fooled You Again

Fox Television’s Opening the Lost Tombs: Live From Egypt was anything but, admits archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, who was featured on the show. “If you are a good archaeologist, you never open something live,” Hawass says. “If you open a sarcophagus like this live, you ruin the whole thing.” In fact, one of the “discoveries” on the show, the opening of a queen’s tomb, was a total farce: the chamber had been discovered in the 1800s, and is listed in many books of Egyptology. But the show’s host, Maury Povich, declared, “If indeed some of the discoveries were made prior to when we broadcast the show live, I am disappointed.” (AP) ...Really, Maury, you should have been suspicious when you stepped into the tomb and flipped the light switch on the wall.