> one of the most convincing hoaxes
... you haven't spent very long on Worth1000.com, have you? It's a fun site, you should go there some time.
Dark shapes like that oddly-fitting person are easy to edit in - there's some "glow" along the edges, which *could* be natural light effects, or just as easily could be blur-addition to smooth borderlines. Besides, any decent artist could make a picture like this *without photoediting* given paper mache, chickenwire/foam, etc.
> Supposedly, the Saudi police took over the location
Yeah.... the Saudis, who are constantly trying to promote their "religious credentials" to their public, are trying to hide evidence of their holy books being right? Suuuure....
Seriously, are archaeologists expected to be just sitting by and not protesting? At all? Police don't "take possession of archaeological sites" and hide them from peer review, even in Saudi Arabia; and if they did, there would be huge protests. Look at what happened when the taliban started blowing up Buddha statues in Afghanistan! The archaeological world was having fits. And here, we supposedly have something never before seen, and you're assuming that archaeologists are going "Nah, I don't care."?
All this site did (have you read the sort of pseudoscience this site spits out?) was replace one bogus picture with another. Where is a single *credible* site reporting on this? Where are archaeologists mentioning this at all (positive or negative)? Where is *any* correlating evidence?
I should make a picture of a box of liquid with bubbles in it and some pipes hooked up to it, and post an article on my website about my new Cold Fusion discovery. It'd be just as credible.
"Illuminant light,
illuminate me."