[Berlin_Freeper]

When Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, came to work at the Egyptian Museum on Saturday, he found that looters had broken in and beheaded two mummies—possibly Tutankhamun's grandparents

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Dr Hawass must be having a coronary right about now.

[Ouderkirk]

You didn't read it to the end,

The heritage of Egypt on Egyptian soil belongs to Egyptians and should remain in Egypt. It is up to the Egyptian people to decide whether to preserve or destroy it.

NO... numbnuts, it is not up to them to either preserve or destroy these things. They will destroy them because the mohammadans do nothing but destroy everything within their grasp. The world should step in, and guard/retrieve these things rather than let them be destroyed by these cockroaches.

[The Pack Knight]

The irony would be delicious if the circumstances weren't so tragic. From the article at your link:

These events make Mr. Hawass's quest to return all Egyptian objects to Egypt misguided or at least poorly timed. Last week he again demanded the return of the bust of Nefertiti from Berlin. The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum has long been on Mr. Hawass's wish list, along with the Zodiac Ceiling in the Louvre and statues in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and museums in Hildesheim, Germany, and Turin, Italy. And a few weeks back he complained bitterly that the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, a gift to the U.S. from the Khedive of Egypt that has graced Central Park since 1881, was in poor condition and might have to be reclaimed. He has made similar demands for the repatriation of Egyptian artifacts around the world, whether purchased, donated or stolen. But can Egypt even look after what it has? This question is now out in the open.

Somehow I doubt even this will have any effect on Hawass's demands, though it certainly gives the British Museum, the Met, the Louvre, and the Neues Museum a big "I told ya so" moment. Then there's this:

Might Mr. Hawass be wondering if the contents of his museums would be safer in Europe or America? Though perhaps justifiable in the sense of preserving artifacts, such a scenario is incredibly unlikely if not inconceivable. The heritage of Egypt on Egyptian soil belongs to Egyptians and should remain in Egypt. It is up to the Egyptian people to decide whether to preserve or destroy it.

What a load of crap. I mean, are they actually saying that the heritage of ancient, pagan, Pharaonic and Hellenistic Egypt is truly the heritage of modern, Muslim, Arab Egypt? I wonder what the Copts have to say about that.