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7 March 2011

Egyptologists speak out

Don't believe the scare stories: ordinary Egyptians have protected precious antiquities.

By Stephen Quirke

[This is a guest post by Fayza Haikal, Stephen Quirke, Okasha El Daly, William Carruthers, Marwa Helmy, Nikolaos Laziridis and Karen Exell, who egyptologists based in the UK and Egypt itself.]

Revolutions call for radical change – are Western museums and archaeologists ready for this? Or might they, like their governments, prefer business as usual?

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