A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Zahi Hawass Breaks his Silence
. The last time Zahi Hawass blogged on his blog was 15th August, but he has just broken his silence with a post to which I will link for the moment without comment:
hawass sounds like a mouthpiece for the egyption government. i have seen at least 5 interviews of people[protesters] involved and not one of them knew it was a library.one of them said "we love our history,why should we want to destroy it. the military had soldiers on the roof throwing stones down onto the protesters and than the protesters retaliated with petrol bombs.i ask myself,why the military chose this building,to attack the protesters in the first place?i think there is more than meets the eye in all this. kyri.
the soldiers were using the roof of the building because it is near the Shura building which was the focus of the protests on that day (as it has been in previous months too).
I wonder how many other buildings called "Institute of something or other" the crowds also "do not know there is a library inside"? If there had been just offices inside and no books, would they have considered it fair game to lob petrol bombs at it?
The last time Zahi Hawass blogged on his blog was 15th August, but he has just broken his silence with a post to which I will link for the moment without comment: I think it is quite significant.
hawass sounds like a mouthpiece for the egyption government.
ReplyDeletei have seen at least 5 interviews of people[protesters] involved and not one of them knew it was a library.one of them said "we love our history,why should we want to destroy it.
the military had soldiers on the roof throwing stones down onto the protesters and than the protesters retaliated with petrol bombs.i ask myself,why the military chose this building,to attack the protesters in the first place?i think there is more than meets the eye in all this.
kyri.
Hawass is no longer IN the government.
ReplyDeletethe soldiers were using the roof of the building because it is near the Shura building which was the focus of the protests on that day (as it has been in previous months too).
http://wikimapia.org/9595721/Egyptian-Shura-Council-The-Consultative-Council
I wonder how many other buildings called "Institute of something or other" the crowds also "do not know there is a library inside"? If there had been just offices inside and no books, would they have considered it fair game to lob petrol bombs at it?