{"id":6461,"date":"2011-01-29T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2011-01-29T21:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T21:05:26","slug":"please-protect-museum-of-egyptian-antiquities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/please-protect-museum-of-egyptian-antiquities\/","title":{"rendered":"Please protect the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egyptian_museum_cairo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egyptian_museum_cairo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"egyptian_museum_cairo\" width=\"775\" height=\"581\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egyptian_museum_cairo.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egyptian_museum_cairo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egyptian_museum_cairo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/egyptian_museum_cairo-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is not a railway station: it is the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities &#8211; and a nearby building is on fire today. The thought of the antiquities being damaged is horrific and it makes me think they should be copied for public view and placed in secure underground bunkers. In fact they should make two copies. In the case of statues, one should go on display in a museum and the other should go in the place where it was found. This should be the normal procedure. For example, large numbers of statues were found at Hadrian&#8217;s Villa. Copies should be sited in their original locations.<br \/>\nI would love to see the Egyptians changing their government. But waiting till the old devil dies would be better than damaging the fabulous antiquities.  Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said two mummies were damaged by demonstrators. But his job came from Mubarak &#8211; so can he trusted?<br \/>\nIt seems a petty point to add, but the Egyptian Museum also has material of the first importance to the study of garden history.<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jkannenberg\/\">jkannenberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a railway station: it is the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities &#8211; and a nearby building is on fire today. The thought of the antiquities being damaged is horrific and it makes me think they should be copied for public view and placed in secure underground bunkers. In fact they should make two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}