Morsi wants to convince the West that he is just a lovable fuzzball, no more dangerous than the Turkish islamist party. If he shut archeology down, scholars and politicians across the West would be on to him.
After the tourist massacre by jihadists at Luxor in 1997, two things were surprising — #1, that Egyptian tourism revived, and #2, that there weren’t massive calls in the US for gun control. If memory serves (returning to archaeology in a transparent attempt to keep this on-topic) Kent Weeks, rediscoverer of KV5, was inside the tomb that day, but near the entrance, and some of his trusted workers rushed in and got everyone to go deep inside the place and hide.
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