Lee Rosenbaum has an important piece on Zahi Hawass ("Egyptian Turmoil: Will Hawass Survive a Regime Change?", Culturegrrl February 3, 2011). She points to Samantha Henig's piece on the New Yorker blog ("Protecting Egypt's Treasures", February 3, 2011).
It is significant that the cited information site is now Restore + Save the Egyptian Museum! on Facebook.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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