They really treasured it...
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Well, at least Egypt tends to take care of its historical artifacts. Other countries in the region tend to see their artifacts destroyed left and right by idiot insurgents.
While this is true, I just think, on principle… It’s probably safer in London.
I can’t imagine that, say, 50 years ago, anyone imagined that what happened in Syria and Iraq would go down, or that we, as a collective humanity, would lose all the treasures that we have, as a result…
I don’t trust the Egyptian regime, either.
But more importantly, on principle, these “handbacks” are just a really bad idea, a dangerous precedent, and should be fought against, particularly of one of the most important pieces of stone ever found.
Fuck, even The Guardian acknowledges that the idea of this “handback” shit is flawed and dangerous…
When even a regime mouthpiece acknowledges the idea may not be so great… Perhaps we should stop and think.
In 50 years, several London districts will be Muslim-majority and British people a small minority in the city, so what's the difference with sending it to Egypt?
Several european countries will be failed-states overrun by Africans by then, but probably not the UK yet then.
The dwindling White population, no matter how much they cherish artifacts and preserving history, won't be in a position to preserve anything with the demographic trends.
Years? 🤔
and other foreigners that have wormed their way into government are already saying it's a good thing.
Tis true. Like a good part of the reason why Egypt has managed to keep most of its artifacts safe is likely because it's generally been able to keep insurgency movements reasonably suppressed. If that ever changed, then there's no telling how much damage might occur.
And precedence is another concern, though I'm not well versed in whether or not there have been cases where older artifacts have been sent back to the Egyptian government upon requests/demands.
Egypt is extremely unstable and they can't even defeat IS in Sinai for many years now (https://twitter.com/GodListensToDua/status/1593996019410288641). There might very well be severe food crisis there next year due to how Ukraine is largely out of the game in food supply, with the population especially angry since they instead invest in building a new capital.
This outpost crew was like from a Far Cry game: https://twitter.com/worldonalert/status/851857460667305984
IS call Egyptian troops "Mossad militias".
Ah, I wasn't actually apprised of recent activities there. Didn't occur to me how dated my awareness of what's been going on there was. Gods I've gotten lazy.
I mean I knew it had the tendency to be on a slow simmer, but didn't know it was bubbling that much now.
nope, whoever i was replying to earlier that deleted their post, i'll share the link again for you
https://news.sky.com/story/museum-superglues-tutankhamuns-broken-mask-10374391
There are plenty of Tusken Raider training camps in the U.S. They only Ruby Ridge the hwite Americans.