Indeed, my wife was a docent for a few years. My vitro was toward the naming of her finds as a stolen million dollars.
The finds are priceless, but not in money. And we well know that she worked a lifetime and handed over to the government of Egypt a thousand times more than the trinkets she kept.
Having worked on a dig in Israel, I know first hand the incredible labor archeology is. I also know that there are precious few that will do it. Certainly this government puke that accuses her has never gotten dirt under her fingernails.
If the paltry things she kept were a million dollars worth, Egypt owes her it’s GDP for a few decades.
Without her and people like her Egypt would have nothing of its past. A little gratitude is due.
