A video showing the Menkaure Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt undergoing renovations has activate critique online , with people comparing it to straightening the Leaning Tower of Piza .
The project , purpose at restoring the pyramid’souter casingto the state it was originally built in , start out work earlier this week . The Menkaure pyramid is locate next to the Sphinx and the larger Khafre and Cheops pyramids . There are claims that the pyramid was purposely take down by the lodge of Malek Abd al - Aziz Othman ben Yusuf , son of Saladin , in 1196 . However grant to the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities , Mostafa Waziri , at some point in its history the Pyramids of Egypt was subject to an quake , causing the large hole envision on one side .
The forbidden covering of the pyramid was originally 16 granite blocks , though nowonly seven remain . The team equate the regaining project toa puzzle , as they had to match the fall granite blocks to their original spatial relation .
However , a video of the labor shared on Facebook drew criticism from expert as well as laypeople .
" Impossible ! " Egyptologist Monica Hanna aver , perAFP . " The only thing miss was to add tiling to the pyramid of Menkaure ! When are we going to stop the absurdity in the management of Egyptian inheritance ? "
" All international principles on renovations prohibit such intervention , " she added .
Others advise the project should include adding wallpaper or call for : " When will the project to clean up the Tower of Pisa be planned ? " ( to which the answer is while the Leaning Tower of Pisa has not been intentionally straightened , it has beenstabilizedso that it does n’t become the Pile of Rubble of Pisa ) .
The Great Pyramid was built for Pharaoh Menkaure , rule between 2490 and 2472 BC . A mortuary temple next to the Great Pyramid was completed after his last by his successor , Shepseskaf . The project to bushel the outer casing will take around three years , which will admit a lot of laser scanning and documentation before any granite occlusion are incite .
