surprised the UN hasn’t taken over as a “world heritage site” as it did with Stonehenge
Before even reading the article I'm gonna guess that the owner of this company is related in some way to Zahi Hawass.
“Saqqara, in Egypt, is the oldest stone complex ever built by humans”
What’s the oldest stone complex ever built by non-humans?
Pyramid Ping
I spent a couple of years there and it was disheartening to see priceless treasure steadily being destroyed through ineptitude and primitiveness. The beautiful museum in Cairo is filthy and unattended, the artifacts are moldering and crumbling within their cases and little or not attempt to maintain humidity controls or protect the artifacts from degradation by oxygen, temperature or light. All the hundreds of items from Tutankhamun's tomb are crumbling in their cases after surviving thousand of years before they were discovered.
The attempts at "preservation" are amateurish and stupid: one look at the lower portions of the Great Sphinx makes you believe that some high school students with their first try at concrete did the work.
No surprise at all that the "restorations" at Saqqara are inept. That's Egypt. If it isn't Islamic, they don't care.
It’ll become a victory mosque by the time they are done with it.