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One has to wonder what would have happened to the obelisk if it had not been an object of fad fashion of the time..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/201 ... arkobelisk

kbs2244 wrote:One has to wonder what would have happened to the obelisk if it had not been an object of fad fashion of the time..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/201 ... arkobelisk

1) Considering it's still a major object of interest today, 3 millennia after its creation, you can't very well maintain that it was "an object of fad fashion of the time..".

2) Zahi is the vanguard of cultural decolonisation. Better start making nice casts of everything we've got in our museums, guys, because the originals are going home.

I just had a vision of what would happen if a bunch of Egyptians landed in NY and started dismantling a monument in Central Park.

Homeland Security would be all over them!

Minimalist wrote:Homeland Security would be all over them!

You seem to have a high opinion of them. i doubt they would figure it out in time. To cover up their blunder, they would have to arrest some patsies and create some damning evidence against them.

dannan14 wrote:

Minimalist wrote:Homeland Security would be all over them!

You seem to have a high opinion of them. i doubt they would figure it out in time. To cover up their blunder, they would have to arrest some patsies and create some damning evidence against them.

S.U.S.O.P.
(Standard United States Operating Procedure).

Yeah...in NY a bunch of Arabs doing anything except driving cabs would be suspicious.

That is the kind of thing that Homeland Security can handle.

Minimalist wrote:Yeah...in NY a bunch of Arabs doing anything except driving cabs would be suspicious.

A bunch of Arabs doing anything, full stop, would be suspicious!
Who do you think works in Saudi Arabia?