[MinuteGal]

I hope Egyptian museum curators and staff plus volunteers had the foresight to remove and hide as many antiquities as they could before the radicals start burning down the venerable buildings full of historical, irreplaceable treasures.

Very much like happened in the museums of Britain, Germany, the Vatican and other states when art and artifacts were removed, stored/hidden before aerial bombings began in WW2.

(....somehow I doubt the Egytian museum personnel had the time or the prescience to carry out removal procedures prior to the rioting. One can only pray so).

Leni

[SE Mom]

Good points, Leni. I know in the middle of all the chaos a lot of folks don’t think the artifacts of Egypt shouldn’t matter- but they do.

I read a tweet yesterday somewhere from a curator saying the losses were much greater than had been reported.