[SunkenCiv]

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Tourists ride camels in front of Giza pyramids on April 23, 2006. 23 Apr 2006 REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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[Paul Ross]

AHuh. Well a bit premature. But certainly not unlikely that someday some really radical jihadists will want to blow them up, as they did the “false idols” of the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

"...but the pyramids are more important than the people."

Just Damn.

[SunkenCiv]

The Toronto Star reprinted the article -- with caption -- but didn't include the photo. So I had to search, and improvise.

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Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

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[kalee]

“The people are angry, but the pyramids are more important than the people.”

lol Fits in with PETA or one of the US environmental wacko groups.

[SunkenCiv]

"Man fears Time. Time fears the Pyramids." -- Arab proverb

[SunkenCiv]

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/04/06/egypttomb_arc.html?category=archaeology&%5C1guid=20070406140030

The Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, will soon be granted new protection in an attempt to control tourism, traffic and vandalism, Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News.

At the same time, Egyptian authorities are encouraging tourists to educate themselves about the tombs, and experience the art within them, without visiting the fragile sites in person.

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