Zahi will be happy.
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I've seen Zahi on TV on a number of occasions and have always respected what he seems to be doing to conserve his country's heritage, till today!
I understand that the exhibition that was planned for London is now off because the venue will eventually be used as a casino. The US one will go ahead because he's getting 300 million for it and it's about time the rest of the world started supporting his efforts instead of grave robbing in the past etc, etc.
If it wasn't for the west much of what he exhibits, or wants returned, would have been lost to posterity.
Perhaps he should study some more recent history.
I understand that the exhibition that was planned for London is now off because the venue will eventually be used as a casino. The US one will go ahead because he's getting 300 million for it and it's about time the rest of the world started supporting his efforts instead of grave robbing in the past etc, etc.
If it wasn't for the west much of what he exhibits, or wants returned, would have been lost to posterity.
Perhaps he should study some more recent history.
Like the Apis Bulls perhaps?If it wasn't for the west much of what he exhibits, or wants returned, would have been lost to posterity.
Perhaps he has.Perhaps he should study some more recent history.
"The company of seekers of truth is preferable to the company of those who are certain they have found it."
When I first started to read the Nat Geo it was full of the attempts to raise money to save monuments that would otherwise be lost after the flooding of Lake Nasser.
The Egyptian attitude at that time was, 'if you want to save the tombs etc, you'll have to do it.'
In general they did not seem to care one way or the other.
The Egyptian attitude at that time was, 'if you want to save the tombs etc, you'll have to do it.'
In general they did not seem to care one way or the other.
Tombs
what about the tombs below the temples
didn't move them did they
quite happy to see that piece of Egypts heritage submerged
never wonder why
Maybe the tombs didn't fit the revisionist agenda? Here's an Egyptian noblewoman from circa 2650bce. Notice anything unusual about her?
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Um, she's Caucasian? Certainly lighter than one would expect for someone in the ME.
She wouldn't look out of place walking down the streets of London.
Sorry, I just had to.
She wouldn't look out of place walking down the streets of London.
I knew it, I just knew it! Those tombs actually held the secret entrance to the hidden temples of Atlantis, didn't they? Huh? Huh?what about the tombs below the temples
didn't move them did they
quite happy to see that piece of Egypts heritage submerged
never wonder why
Sorry, I just had to.
"The company of seekers of truth is preferable to the company of those who are certain they have found it."
Re: Tombs
2650 BC is the beginning of the Old Kingdom. There's no blue eyeshadow - appropriate since trade had not begun yet in Lapis Lazuli.Cognito wrote:what about the tombs below the temples
didn't move them did they
quite happy to see that piece of Egypts heritage submerged
never wonder why
Maybe the tombs didn't fit the revisionist agenda? Here's an Egyptian noblewoman from circa 2650bce. Notice anything unusual about her?
But she does have blue ornaments around her neck, and I don't know of any other way that they got that shade of blue at that time.