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To: Ditter

He’s the man in charge, and he has to deal with a culture where everyone relies on family connections to get employed (I didn’t say “get work”) and expects to be able to extract squeeze money for everything or going anywhere. This is a pretty old practice, as the pharaonic tombs (including the Great Pyramid) were often open for business as tourist attractions way back in Greek and Roman times. The Great Pyramid was finally resealed late in the Roman period, then some centuries later (during Islamic times) chipped open (I guess they couldn’t find the door, or they chipped open the concrete plug the Romans had put in, no one knows; there’s a non-Egyptian bit of graffito dating from Greek or Roman times over the original door, suggesting that the Muzzies were the chippers).

And I’ll also concede that, given what Egypt is (a Moslem country), it’s a good thing they have *anyone* capable of and willing to run something like an archaeological program. There are plenty of competent Egyptologists (including some Egyptians) working in Egypt because of Hawass. He is a meddler and interferer, but even he has to be careful, because literally nothing would get dug were it not for foreign money, and those sources aren’t going to put up with just anything.

But yeah, he is a great pillock.


24 posted on 07/17/2010 7:47:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv
I remember hearing a few years back an Egyptian woman (I think) shrieking about the Egyptian antiques in British (and other museums) around the world. She was screaming “we were robbed these treasures belong in Egypt”. What the idiot failed to grasp is if the Brits and others hadn't intervened there wouldn't be any Egyptian antiques they would have been destroyed by Egyptians.
26 posted on 07/17/2010 7:54:40 AM PDT by Ditter
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