Well, that was a bad idea. Plan to "restore" Menkaure's pyramid abandoned after international outcry and site investigation

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Zahi Hawass was on the committee:

“In archaeology, don’t be in a hurry. If you are in a hurry, you will ruin the site,” Hawass said. “It is important for any kind of work to be done at the site of the pyramids, is to make a study and to tell us what to do.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/egypt-scraps-plan-to-restore-cladding-on-one-of-the-three-great-pyramids-of-giza

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