My Good Luck Glyph
Posted on 05/12/2005 12:20:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
"Tourists are all very good for our economy, but very bad for our archaeology."
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And the money they bring is exactly what provides for the preservation of the ancient Egyptian treasures.
Zahi has been famous for a little too long and it's going to his head.
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He appears to love cameras at least as much as the Clintons.
Yes, in the limelight a little too long and with some very disturbing agendas...i.e. the pyramids were not built by Hebrew slaves, they were a labour of love of the ancient Egyptian people...
Forget the holocaust deniers, here's an exodus denier.
Beware of the revisionists.
"We need to put up walls to keep horses and camels away. We need to make a tourist's entrance," he continued. "We need to say, 'this many tourists a day and no more'. We get 60 million Egyptian pounds [about Dh39 million] from tourists every month and that’s not enough to restore even one tomb. We need to have clean bathrooms, souvenir shop and cafeteria with every site. We need to get seriously into site management and I have already begun."
He's already begun it? Whoa, very impressive. He's been saying these same kinds of things for years, decades even. $39 million not enough to restore even one tomb? That's a lot of corruption, Zowie.
"Tourists are all very good for our economy, but very bad for our archaeology."
some related articles from 1997, all still online...
Gunmen Kill 60 in Massacre At Egyptian Tourist Facility
By John Lancaster
The Washington Post
LUXOR, Egypt
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V117/N59/egypt.59w.html
Attack on tourists in Egypt leaves 71 dead
Shootings 'won't be the last,' militants say
November 18, 1997
http://www3.cnn.com/WORLD/9711/18/egypt.attack.on/
Insight: The Death of Innocents: The Luxor Massacre
Volume 51 Number 2, March/April 1998
by James Wiseman
http://www.archaeology.org/9803/abstracts/insight.html
Massacre In Luxor: Islamic Schools to Blame, Says Egyptian Editor
http://www.isisforum.com/news/massacre.htm
The Incident at Deir el Bahari and its Aftermath
An Open Letter by W. Raymond Johnson
KMT 9.1 SPRING 1998 © KMT Communications
http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/spring98/incident.html
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Maybe that's what I don't like about him.
gracias, senor.
My pleasure.
From what I've heard about Egypt's facilities, that "clean bathrooms" goal is gonna be a major project.
Don't forget the terrorist takeover of doomed EgyptAir flight 990 in October, 1999.
…“I’m more known than a movie star,” he said, smiling, taking control of the interview with ease.
“People come to me for autographs. Children stop me on the road and ask, ‘uncle, what really happened to King Tut?’ I go for dinner and everyone is around me, talking to me, wanting my autographs.
Excellent self diagnosis!
Yes, Hawass caught my attention too when he was on TV insisting that there were no slaves, because he found evidence of fish bones and bread making by the "workers".
My Good Luck Glyph
I'm not an archaeologist, but you know it's bad when I can turn on The History Channel, see his face, and immediately know his name. He *is* everywhere. I think he's got a point, though, that tourism should be allowed only to the point where they don't threaten the integrity of the finds. We're not talking about a spray-painted artifical park like Disneyland, but real archaeological sites.
Sure is. Hawass is more a showman than anything else.
“I will make King Tut into a real, living person for you, for everyone,” he said, smiling hugely.
Is he gonna clone him?
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