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A heated debate over a restoration project of Egypt’s Pharaonic Menkaure Pyramid was finally resolved on Thursday after an official committee rejected the plan, which had divided experts for almost three weeks. An official review committee — led by renowned Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities Zahi Hawass and involving six prominent engineers and archaeologists from Egypt, the US, the Czech Republic, and Germany — has unanimously objected to the suggestion of re-installing the granite casing blocks scattered around the base of Menkaure, the pyramid, the smallest of Egypt’s over 4000…