Horrible, I feel sorry for Egypt. I hope the citizens are able to save their country. The destruction of important historical artifacts seems to follow where ever Islamists want to cause upheavel. Never forget the Taliban blowing up the Afgan mountain buddhas. In this story they quote “teenage” vandals. You can bet these are Islamists trying to rid Egypt of anything pre-Mohammad. Add in the factor of organized crime, selling the objects on the international antiquities auction scene, and Egypt has its hands full.
King Tut’s sister is missing and Egypt has issued an international alert for her return.
UNESCO and Interpol are working with Egyptian authorities to recover the priceless artifact, a limestone figurine of the young pharaoh’s sister from the 14th century BC. The young girl holds a piece of fruit and her hair flows loosely on one side–a symbol of her youth–but her head is held high, a decidedly regal look on her face.
“This constitutes irreversible damage to the history and identity of the Egyptian people,” said Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO.
The statuette, “A Daughter of the Pharaoh Akhenaten,” may be considered the most important piece in the Malawi National Museum in the city of Minya, which was looted during a riot in August. The museum was ransacked, sarcophagi and display cases were smashed, and more than 1,000 pieces were taken from the museum. Items too big to be carried away were defaced.
Two teenager rioters said, “The government is destroying their people, so we are destroying this because it belongs to the government,” reports the Daily Telegraph.Destruction of museums and Egypt’s cultural treasures have become all too common during the upheavals as the country tries to forge its path to democracy. In August, when the crowds began to gather around the Malawi museum, the provincial chief of police, Col. Abdulsamie Farghali, is said to have called his own family to try to protect the archeological treasures, but the angry crowds proved to be too much.
Background: Egypt’s Malawi National Museum damaged, looted
Sounds like our Lib/Prog/Commies here, what they don’t break they sh*t all over.
Isn’t their modus operandi: if you can’t build a mosque on it, then destroy it. They think they can destroy the truth of history with their lies (not unlike progressives and liberals in America). It’s an awful shame, but this is what you get from cave-dwellers.
I believe that to the Islamic terrorists, theft of non-Muslim items to sell to support Islam is not theft.
In a more comedic story, xbox is protecting its new game/console with sand tiger sharks in New Zealand. http://www.geekosystem.com/xbox-sharks/
Like that the name for a group of sharks is, shiver (also shoal or school). A shiver of sharks. Sounds right.
Speaking of shiver, from Wikip, here’s the first known written line (1795) for, shiver my (or me) timbers.: “Peace? Shiver my timbers! what a noise ye make – ye seem to be fonder of peace than ye be of quiet.” … “Lather me! – Shiver my timbers. if so be he comes athwart me – I’ll soon lower his topsails for him – Here’s King George and old England for ever!”
Wikip- “Shiver my timbers” was most famously popularized by the archetypal pirate Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883). Silver used the phrase seven times, as well as variations such as “shiver my sides”, “shiver my soul” and “shake up your timbers”.
About the same kind of scruples as deliberately deceiving millions of people.