January 31, 2011 at 8:53 am
#715457
cjboffoli
Participant
Jiggers: Where are you getting your information? Apparently a couple of random vandals did damage two mummies and a few antiquities. But I didn’t see anything about it having to do with Tutankhamun artifacts. As I’ve actually stood inside the tomb of King Tut, in the Valley of the Kings, I can tell you it is a huge distance from northern cities like Cairo and Alexandria where the protests are centered.
It is interesting to read some wire reports that Cairo has been left “in a shambles” and “with the smell of smoke lingering in the air” considering that that sounds like a pretty apt description on its best days. It is definitely one of the most dirty/dusty, wood and charcoal smoky, trash strewn cities I have ever seen.