Robert Bauval from Cairo: What Happens to the Antiquities?
2011-04-07
William Henry talks to Robert Bauval from a hotel room in Egypt, where Robert is exploring changes in the Egyptian government, and how they might affect the future of the monuments and the magnificent artifacts stored in Egypt. Many members of the Egyptology community felt that Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian Director of General of Antiquities under Hosni Mubarek, would resign and perhaps even leave the country. However, a short time after he left his post, he returned to it, saying "I can’t live without the antiquities and the antiquities can’t live without me."
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WEDNESDAY, FEB 9: REVELATIONS IS ON HIATUS THIS WEEK. LAST WEEK: William and Claire Henry have returned from Egypt with a phenomenal firsthand account of what is happening in that country. You will NOT have heard anything remotely like this anywhere in the media. This is on-the-ground witness testimony from ordinary people who were caught up in a revolution, and endured an increasingly dangerous and difficult effort to escape from what was quickly becoming a very dangerous situation.