But you’ve put your finger on it exactly: Antony and Cleopatra a really a celebrity couple. More star status = more tourist dollars.
Personally, I’m interested in the exploration/excavation for its own sake, but if these people really have found Cleopatra’s tomb it’s going to be another cash cow for the Egyptian government. It’s not “obsessing,” it’s pragmatism.
Anyway, your tax dollars aren’t being used, so what the heck.
......your tax dollars aren’t being used,.....
From the web....
“Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a 69-year-old sociologist from the American University in Cairo, is lobbying members of Congress to attach conditions to America’s $1.5 billion annual aid to Egypt. “I am pushing for conditionality, and I would like the democracy and freedom agenda to be a bipartisan one,” Ibrahim said.”
Since money is fungible, the money freed up as a result of the $1.5 billion American foreign aid to Egypt, the dig might actually be paid for by US taxpayers.