[SunkenCiv]

A picture taken in 1992, in Paris, shows French Egyptologist Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt. Desroches-Noblecourt (AFP/File/JOEL ROBINE)

[Old Student]

I remember reading about the work they were doing when I was a kid to move the temple at Abu Simbel in National Geographic. I was captivated...

Managed to make it to Turkey (Istanbul, Ankara, Nemrut Dag, and some other sites), but never got to go to Egypt while I was in the USAF, and now I may never leave home again... darn it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel_temples

yep. I'm gettin' old...

Old Student

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A woman who saved 3,000 years of history.

[Ditter]

Left to themselves, the Egyptians would have destroyed every shred of their fabulous history. Shame on them.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[EDINVA]

What an extraordinary career and legacy. All of us owe her a debt of gratitude for her life’s work.

And, I’d wager, her passing will warrant a brief obit, a few hits on this thread, nowhere on the order of a Michael Jackson or Anna Nicole Smith. Such is the world we live in.

We want to preserve Western Culture why?