# Live Pyramid opening on FOX... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 17, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040 "2003-03-17T17:24:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/1 "2003-03-17T17:24:35Z")
This happened about 2 years ago. It was your typical FOX special. They opened a couple of never found before tomb. They last one they opened, the one with the most potential was flooded with water. Of course they opened this tomb with about 4 minutes left in the show. They stated they had never seen anything like this before and were excited to drain the site and discover what was under the water. Does anyone know what transpired? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/2 "2003-03-17T17:27:18Z")
If I remember correctly, it was pretty much a big steaming load of nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/3 "2003-03-17T17:35:29Z")
Didn’t they end up finding Al Capone’s treasure in there? It was either that, or not much of anything. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/4 "2003-03-17T17:43:16Z")
I remember something like that, where they had a robot crawling through a tight tunnel. The big suspense was what was behind a door or hatch. They removed to find another hatch (woo!). I don’t remember any water, and seems like only about a year ago, so I bet this was a different show. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/5 "2003-03-17T17:51:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\*I remember something like that, where they had a robot crawling through a tight tunnel. The big suspense was what was behind a door or hatch. They removed to find another hatch (woo!). I don’t remember any water, and seems like only about a year ago, so I bet this was a different show. \*\* Your memory matches mine more closely than the OP. As you said, perhaps they are different shows… ---
**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/6 "2003-03-17T18:11:52Z")
Yeah, Revtim, you are thinking of the follow-up to the original show. In the first, they explored the tunnels with a little robot, and found the hatch. Then they made a extension for that rover that could look thru a crack in the hatch and see to the other side, where they found(!)…the other hatch. Both these shows turned up pretty much nothing new except a few new mummies, (which is almost a daily occurance during an excavation). ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/7 "2003-03-17T18:15:58Z")
Actually the “robot” episode was just recently (within 6 months). Like I said in the original post it was like 2 years ago when this first live FOX special aired. Here is some linkage courtesy of Ars Technica: [http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1032247638.html](http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1032247638.html) MtM ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/8 "2003-03-17T18:20:15Z")
The Fox TV network teamed with the National Geographic Channel and did the program [_Pyramids Live: Secret Chambers Revealed_](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0910_020913_egypt_1.html) last September. Some good shots of the robot in the shaft [here](http://www.irobot.com/industrial/prover.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-pyramid-opening-on-fox/162040/9 "2003-03-18T00:19:23Z")
I hate to say this since I find most archaeology interesting, but it really shouldn’t be shown live as so much of it is very slow careful work and study.