The Fox special "Opening the Lost Tomb Live," aired on February 28, 1999, featured Boris Sed's team's Giza excavation. Reuters reported in February 2000 that receding groundwater had exposed a granite sarcophagus in a chamber about 30 m deep. Hawass dated it to around 600 BC, called it "the most important archaeological discovery of my career," and said the chamber could be the mythical tomb of Osiris. Sed's team had found the sarcophagus lid earlier.
Hawass calls Giza chamber a possible tomb of Osiris
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- Reuters reported Hawass's account on February 16, 2000, not February 1998.
- The granite sarcophagus was exposed in a chamber at the bottom of a roughly 30 m (98 ft) deep shaft at Giza as groundwater levels receded.
- Hawass called it "the most important archaeological discovery of my career" and dated it to around 600 BC, not 500 BC.
- Hawass said the chamber could be the mythical tomb of Osiris; this was his interpretation, not an established identification.
- Boris Sed's Ukrainian team found the sarcophagus lid earlier and said it was denied credit.
- The Fox special "Opening the Lost Tomb Live" aired on February 28, 1999, not in March.
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