Over on the Save El-Hibeh Facebook page its owners announce:
We have 1,000 members in less than 48 hours. Please keep spreading the word, distributing the press release and photos, emailing government and UNESCO officials (found below), and sharing this site and related information on your facebook page.Instead of Americans and others pestering the UNESCO offices to "do something" these thousand people should also be shooting off letters to the US government to get them immediately to restore UNESCO's funding so they are in a position to "do something" in collaboration with Egyptian officials. US archaeologists expecting them to do something in this crisis with their funding reduced by the US really seems a bit ironic.
UPDATE 13.03.12
Meanwhile over on the Facebook page members are congratulating themselves on how many journalists they have managed to send press releases to. An Internet search Tuesday morning shows however that for all those tens of media folk approached, there has been so far a rather subdued response. It turns out most news items on this come from the archaeo-blogs and newsfeeds (among them several regurgitated copies of some of my own posts over here appearing as some other person's website - grrr). There is a Yahoo news piece which so far seems not to have been taken up. Let's see whether the next twenty-four hours brings an improvement in getting news attention.
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