Ashraf Shazly/AFP/File -- Sudanese men ride their camels past pyramids in the Meroe desert, north of Khartoum, on February 26, 2010
Posted on 03/23/2014 10:05:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Sudan's rich but under-developed archaeological heritage has received an unprecedented $135 million (98 million euros) in funding from the Gulf state of Qatar, Sudanese officials said on Sunday.
The money will support 29 projects including the rehabilitation of ancient relics, construction of museums and study of the Meroitic language, said Salahaddin Mohammed Ahmed, the project coordinator.
He said the funds will support archaeological work by several Western nations as well as Sudan over five years.
"This is the biggest amount of money for Sudanese antiquities in their entire history," Abdurrahman Ali, head of the country's museums, told reporters, adding that the project will lay the foundation for "archaeological tourism".
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Ashraf Shazly/AFP/File -- Sudanese men ride their camels past pyramids in the Meroe desert, north of Khartoum, on February 26, 2010
Isn’t this the same brand of Islam that has funded the destruction of all pre-Islamic artifacts in the rest of the world? Have a I missed a memo?
In that context, there is only one brand of Islam. Islam insists that before the Big Ol’ Mo was only the Time of Ignorance. Not long after Morsi took power in Egypt, some dipsh*t cleric called for the destruction of the Giza pyramids, but that was not novel; in the Middle Ages, hand demolition of the Menkaure pyramid was attempted, and the damage can still be seen today, but that relatively small pyramid had hardly been touched after six months of backbreaking toil by the Islamic vandals, so they gave up.
I also thought the murderous subhuman muzzie filth hated antiquities, and destroyed as many as they could? Better keep the project quiet; oooops, too late now.
Sudan has some major sites, which have been worked on for a long time (over a century), but off and on. The Islamofascists who run the country were conducting a genocide for over a decade and that has barely simmered down, leaving them in control of nearly the entire country. Qatar is funding the thing, but note that the teams with the expertise will be from Europe and the US, and maybe Latin America. There *is* no one in Sudan with much experience or expertise in the fields needed for this.
Agreed. That’s one project I’d never go near, even if I had the creds, since I’d never know when the islamonazis would show-up and slaughter everyone, based upon a mullah-with-a-toothache’s fatwa whim.
The scumbags who murdered the tourists at Luxor years ago were set to be released by Morsi’s “government”.
Cultural projects funding.... $3.5 million.
Feeding and Maintaining the criminal culture--- $130 million...
And the beat goes on.
Hopefully some funding will go towards hiring heavily armed, reliable guards.
Figures.
They have to find it — so they can destroy it.
Well, I’m speechless. A Muzzie state actually doing something to preserve pre-Mo sites? I suppose from Sudan’s perspective anything that might help that murderous regime’s image is a positive.
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