"Secrets: The Sphinx" (2013)

This is what you get when you try to make archaeology as exciting as the Super Bowl.  Good Grief!  And the music has "got" to be straight out of an opera's mass choir "crowd goes to war" scenes.  

Wouldn't it be easier just to play an operatic quartet  number during each 4th down of a football game, and then during the final two minutes of the 4th quarter say "Yeah, we still don't really know anything about the Sphinx."?  The effect would be the same.  All that was missing was for one archaeologist to tackle another one.

Or we could just teach the whole stadium to sing, "O Fortuna".  That would work, too.

Perhaps if I took a class on the history of the documentary, maybe that would enlighten why these choices are made.  Otherwise:  For the "adrenaline junky", it's not going to cut it.  For the scholar, it seems to me more annoying than anything.  And as for pop-scholarism?  Let's commit and do it, instead just commercializing our egos.

I will say I recognize the mentioned "hey we found this tomb" tomb in this documentary as the tomb that held one of the "we're going to open this" spots from "Into the Great Pyramid" .  And the guy talking about that spot (Director of Giza.....) was also in the other one, too.