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Egypt has a very impressive history museum, and they've done a far better job than many of their neighbors.
How would you like it if Chinese archaeologists came to America, excavated sites all over, found origina copies of the constitution, bricks from Washington's house, etc., and kept them in a Chinese museum?
It sucks for western civilization and it sucks for museum accessibility, but fair is fair. I think most of the relics the Western powers took should be returned.
Greece wants a shitload of stuff back too, so it's not just the non-west.
I can understand the sentiment, but during the Arab spring, didn't a group of demonstrators attack and badly damage some of the items in an Egyptian museum.
My point is that despite all the oil protestors throwing shot at paintings, the measures where already taken to protect them by having them behind glass (though still prosecute the idiots).
If the extremist both religious and left are taken care of, then maybe we can talk about it as they are the ones to target history first. You can want items back but it's better to have them back in one piece and preserved than let them be destroyed.
They tried. Their current president moved troops in front of it and told them to Fuck Off with Tanks.
Unlike the enlightened west where glue sniffers with soup are allowed to throw what they want, where they want.
absolute bollocks - after the arab spring experts went into the museums to check the damage they found them putting together artefacts with superglue ffs
https://news.sky.com/story/museum-superglues-tutankhamuns-broken-mask-10374391
I didn't say they are fully up to Western standards. I said they have a very impressive history museum (collection size, building size, general facilities, and including preservation capabilities).
The article you link even quotes the conservation experts as the museum saying the person who broke and (then incorrectly repaired) the mask fucked up.
nah shitskins get nothing
Are Greeks included in shitskins? Or Chinese?