Comments on: The Egyptian Museum http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/07/23/the-egyptian-museum/ Our Family Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:59:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim K http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/07/23/the-egyptian-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Tim K Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:29:27 +0000 http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/07/23/the-egyptian-museum/#comment-147 The argument goes that if you don't rob them on behalf of a museum they will be robbed by people planning on selling them for cold, hard cash. As most tombs were. I famously asked a boy I taught called Henry Salt if he knew there used to be a famous "grave robber" called Salt who took much of the Egyptian antiquities back to the British Museum. He said "yes...that's my great-grandfather". Whoops. The argument goes that if you don’t rob them on behalf of a museum they will be robbed by people planning on selling them for cold, hard cash. As most tombs were.

I famously asked a boy I taught called Henry Salt if he knew there used to be a famous “grave robber” called Salt who took much of the Egyptian antiquities back to the British Museum. He said “yes…that’s my great-grandfather”. Whoops.

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