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News: Egyptian museum broken into
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Egyptian museum broken into
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All hell is breaking loose. 
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They probably just unleashed a shitload of curses and plagues. 
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WTF, i hate this ****, they're just doing to cause trouble.
At least steal it man.
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Oh my! 
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
They probably just unleashed a shitload of curses and plagues. |
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Break into Mubarak's mansion and steal ****!
Leave the 2000 year old artifacts alone!
This is exactly what happened in Iraq, and so many priceless antiquities were stolen or destroyed.
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1. Egyptian artifacts broken/stolen/destroyed...curses and plagues released.
2. TBD
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17. 2012: THE END
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Member Since: 3/25/2009
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It's even more worrying to think about what's happening in other museums that don't have this kind of protection
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Member Since: 11/18/2010
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
They probably just unleashed a shitload of curses and plagues. |
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Member Since: 9/23/2009
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Quote:
Originally posted by Yahhh!
1. Egyptian artifacts broken/stolen/destroyed...curses and plagues released.
2. TBD
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17. 2012: THE END
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Member Since: 5/28/2008
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And they expect people to respect their demands?
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Member Since: 5/26/2010
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
1. Egyptian artifacts broken/stolen/destroyed...curses and plagues released.
2. Born This Way release date
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17. 2012: THE END
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Fixed the TBD 
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Quote:
Originally posted by Yahhh!
1. Egyptian artifacts broken/stolen/destroyed...curses and plagues released.
2. TBD
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17. 2012: THE END
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My egyptian side is getting emotional.
Selfish mother****ers.
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Before anyone in here demonize the Egyptian populace, the Egyptian citizens are actually trying to protect their treasures from the thiefs
Excerpt from MSNBC.
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When fire broke out on Friday night at the ruling party's headquarters, Khaled Youssef, an Egyptian film director who has made movies critical of government policies, issued an urgent call on the Al Arabiya television channel: "I am calling on the Egyptian army to head instantly to the Egyptian Museum. There is a fire right next to it in the party headquarters," he said in a report relayed by Reuters.
As the fire raged, would-be thieves started entering the grounds surrounding the museum, The Associated Press reported. But other young men, some armed with truncheons taken from the police, formed a protective human chain outside the museum's main gates."I'm standing here to defend and to protect our national treasure," one of the men, a 40-year-old engineer named Farid Saad, told AP.
AP quoted 26-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim as saying that it was important to guard the museum because it has "5,000 years of our history. If they steal it, we'll never find it again."
Another defender at the gates pleaded with the crowd not to let the looters in, shouting, "We are not like Baghdad!"
Finally, four of the army's armored vehicles took up posts outside the museum. Soldiers surrounded the building and moved inside.
AP said the soldiers rounded up would-be looters who made it onto the museum grounds and lined them up in a row. As the soldiers corralled one man toward the line, crowds outside the fence shouted, "Thief, thief!" A couple of the troops hit the man with the butts of their rifles and sat him down with others who were apparently caught inside the gates.
On Saturday, Hawass provided a damage report.
"I felt deeply sorry today when I came this morning to the Egyptian Museum and found that some had tried to raid the museum by force last night," Reuters quoted him as saying. "Egyptian citizens tried to prevent them and were joined by the tourism police, but some [looters] managed to enter from above and they destroyed two of the mummies."
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Elizabeth Bartman, president of the Archaeological Institute of America, told me she was heartened to hear that the Egyptian people were so keen to protect their cultural heritage.
"If the reports about the human cordon around the museum are true, that's a very moving thing for me," she told me. "They regard their archaeological finds as so precious that it's worth their lives to protect them."
University of Pennsylvania archaeologist C. Brian Rose, the institute's past president, wasn't surprised by the reports.
"It's not possible to plan for the future unless one understands the past, and I think this is something that all Egyptians understand very well," Rose told me. "There's a great respect for the cultural heritage of Egypt — shared, I think, by I would say nearly all Egyptians. I hope that respect will keep the archaeological sites and museums safe from any harm during this period of conflict."
Even if the protesters and government forces share that respect for the museum's antiquities, the situation could still lead to unintended and unwelcome consequences. The fire next door is the main threat right now.
"Especially with Egypt being such a dry place — they have all these organic materials, they have textiles, they have ancient food, they have lots of wooden items — fire is a very scary proposition," Bartman said. "Let's just keep our fingers crossed that the museums are not going to be caught in the crossfire."
source:http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...aged?GT1=43001
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I applaud them even more for not only standing up to their authoritarian government but also for their great respect to their heritage.
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
They probably just unleashed a shitload of curses and plagues. |
This made me spit out my apple juice in laughter. I hope you're happy
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