This is a painful article to read. One admires the patriotic spirit and sense of pride that leads Noureddin to assert that Egyptians "are totally able to protect our monuments" and that lead Hawass to reject offers by international organizations to help protect Egypt's heritage, and under normal circumstances these assertions and rejections would be warranted. But these aren't normal circumstances. Normally gangs of armed looters do not attack guarded sites or storehouses.
Claiming Legacies: Italy, Germany, and the Post-WWII Ownership Battle for
the Discobolus
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[image: Claiming Legacies: Italy, Germany, and the Post-WWII Ownership
Battle for the Discobolus]
Image Credit: Exhibition Arte Liberata 1937-1947: Master...
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