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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, November 13, 2000
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"The Government of the Republic of Egypt maintained control over the archaeological digs and Dr. Hawass and his team were responsible for the excavation and preparation of all finds featured on the special."
NEW YORK — A much-watched Fox TV special that promised viewers the first look at ancient relics bamboozed them instead, according to an Inside Edition report scheduled to air this week.
Fox, which has broadcast such questionable "reality" fare as Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire and World's Scariest Police Shootouts responded in a statement to The Associated Press:
Opening the special because Inside Edition focused on the first special because it had some huge problems, investigative producer Mike Corn said.
The Inside Edition report airs tomorrow in most cities.
Opening the Lost Tombs was seen in more than 10 million homes. It was followed by a sequel last May, Opening of the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live!
Fox special buried truth, report says
Asked whether he actually discovered the mummy live on camera, Hawass said, "No, that burial chamber belonged to a tomb that I found a month before the show."
One of the night's "discoveries," the tomb of a pharaoh queen, was actually discovered in the 1800s, Corn said, with published maps of it long available.
The Fox special was "playing up to the audience," 'Who knows what we're going to find?' Corn said. "But anybody with a library card could tell what they were going to find."
Opening the Lost Tombs: Live From Egypt, broadcast in March 1999, showed an archaeologist creeping through two Egyptian tombs and uncovering a mummy, skeletons and pottery believed to be 5,000 years old.
The Associated Press
He added: "If you are a good archaeologist, you never open something live. If you open a sarcophagus like this live, you ruin the whole thing."
But Zahi Hawass told Inside Edition he knew what Fox's cameras would show him finding even before the broadcast.
Crossword
AGROSS
1 Lingua or ziti
5 Played again
1 Reed or Rawls
1 Meat jelly
14 Plantation
18 Balloon or Landers
17 Trovel's big brother?
18 Sidewalks
20 Proft figure
21 M. Boba
22 Classic tune
23 Diamond top
25 Top of the foot
26 "My Friend"
27 Stewardess" grap
28 Game bed
31 Utter sharpy
33 So far
34 Dead body
36 Sea of Asia
38 Kidnap
39 High-pitched
43 Raven or robin
45 Not yet broadcast
48 Saloon
49 The farm
50 Game counter
51 Tack on
52 Pronto acronym
54 "Eestasy" star
56 No vote
57 Made a choice
59 Cacophony
60 Alphabet start
62 Disastrous extremity
64 In a vertical line
67 "You My Sunshine"
68 Louisiana backwater
69 Book before Joe
70 "and so to Peps
71 Pipsqueak
72 Rankle
DOWN
1 Faux
2 Egyptian viper
3 Man of Madrid
4 Neap or ebb
5 Vinegar constituent
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6 Meals
7 Gloryf
8 Nice beach?
9 Beer choice
10 "Nautilus" captain
11 Former coach
Torn
12 As per schedule
13 Upset an incumbent
19 Whitney or Wallach
23 Costa
24 Chatter indiscreetly
26 Nails
28 Mate
32 Chapter subdivisions
35 Baby bear
37 Lanai garland
40 Romanian-born abstract sculptor
41 Mother of Cyltemestra
42 Water whirl
44 Sharpshooter
45 On the (honest)
46 Tree with a huge truck
trunk
47 Have hopes
48 Squealed
53 Family dog
55 Lessor
58 Liability
61 Rorschach
image
63 Unrefined
65 Fellows
66 Purse