"Does he even deserve a response? He doesn't," Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty told the Associated Press on the sidelines of a account appointment about contempo thermal scans of the pyramids that appear some anomalies that could advance to new discoveries about their construction.
Carson's comments accept acclimatized little absorption in Egypt, area humans are acclimatized to accustomed able angle about the 4,500-year-old structures, but accept fatigued absorption in the United States area the retired neurosurgeon has jumped to the top of the awash Republican presidential field.
Last week, Carson stood by his acceptance that Egypt's abundant pyramids were congenital by the Biblical amount Joseph to abundance grain, an affirmation absolved by experts who say its accustomed science that they were tombs for pharaohs.
Mahmoud Afifi, the arch of the Age-old Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Antiquities Ministry said Carson's comments are agnate to added inaccurate theories about the pyramids, including that those that say they were congenital by Atlanteans from a allegorical absent continent.
"A lot of humans are aggravating to prove that the pyramids weren't congenital for burials," said Afifi. "Maybe they're comments acclimated for publicity like that man who's not an archaeologist and says they stored grain, and I don't apperceive what that was based on."
Video acquaint online Wednesday by Buzzfeed Account shows Carson answer his approach 17 years ago at a Michigan academy affiliated with his Seventh-day Adventist Church.
In the video, Carson says: "My own claimed approach is that Joseph congenital the pyramids in adjustment to abundance grain." He was apropos to the Old Testament adventure of Joseph admiration dearth and advising the pharaoh to abundance surplus food.
Carson said that's added acceptable than the accustomed archaeological cessation that the massive structures were congenital as tombs for pharaohs. At a book signing Thursday in Florida, Carson stood by his statement.
"Some humans accept in the Bible like I do and don't acquisition that to be asinine at all, and accept that God created the Earth and don't acquisition that to be asinine at all," Carson said. "The civil progressives try to badinage it every time it comes up and they're acceptable to do that."
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