iraq had huge amounts of it’s antiquities looted.....i have met the man the pentagon put in charge of hunting them down....
Why would Egypt want to be reminded of the time when Egypt was a world power, before it went all muslim anyway?
Yes, and it wasn’t US forces that were responsible as the reports at the time strained to imply, it was largely attributable to the curators themselves as I recall, with very little destruction and the looting being more of a disappearance from within.
That’s why I mentioned propaganda. I’m getting very mixed signals as to just who the bad guys are in Egypt in this regard, and so it seems wise to wait and see.