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Awful. Poor people are having tax money stolen from them to move head-of-state mummies... Even long-dead mummies are making people's lives miserable, lol.
by henvic 6y ago
Awful. Poor people are having tax money stolen from them to move head-of-state mummies... Even long-dead mummies are making people's lives miserable, lol.
- CaptainJustin 6y agoI would normally agree with a statement along these lines. However I would like to think that this came out of the marketing budget for the tourism sector. I bet tourism is significant to Egypt's economy. Then I think the question becomes: Was this an effective marketing event? Who knows. But considering someone from South Africa is discussing it with someone in the Netherlands on HN perhaps it worked out.
- inglor_cz 6y agoAbsolutely. We do not normally discuss Egypt here in CZ, but this video is spreading virally across the social networks. The post-Covid summer is inching closer and there is a lot of pent-up demand for tourism and discovery of new places. I bet some people are not going to forget this show.
- egeozcan 6y ago> The post-Covid summer is inching closer Where I'm living (Germany), this sounds like fantasy.
- inglor_cz 6y agoThere is a good chance that by August we will be over 50 % vaccinated and there will be a late vacation season.
- morelisp 6y agoIf true, I should definitely have left Berlin for Prague a couple years ago...
- inglor_cz 6y agoCzech coronavirus response was a rollercoaster. We were the best in spring 2020. Then came the summer respite and the government started resting on their laurels. Then came the menacing autumn and an absolutely disastrous winter, when we actually were the worst in the world. If the USA had the same mortality as we have, it would have over 800 000 deaths by now. Now the disease is falling off again in lockdown, but really fast, faster than expected (people are lukewarm about the rules). There is some suspicion that the British variant simply swept through the nation so hard that, even with the subpar vaccination campaign, we have reached the herd immunity inadvertently. Clearly some of the regions that were worst hit just a month or two ago (Chebsko, Trutnovsko) are now doing OK, which seems to indicate lack of fuel for further infections there.
- wl 6y agoThe Cairo Museum was not built intelligently or well and was falling apart even a century ago. Much priceless material culture was destroyed in basement flooding in the years before the Nile was dammed. John D. Rockefeller Jr. even offered to replace it in the 1920s, redirecting his funds to Jerusalem after politics and the control he demanded torpedoed the project. The mummies should have been moved to a more appropriate location long ago. I don't begrudge the Egyptian state a little bit of pomp and glitter as they do what they should have done long ago.
- masterphilo 6y agoWhy is celebrating one of the oldest civilizations in human history, their own nation's history, considered "awful"? I thought the whole thing looked beautiful. I hope to visit someday when the area is fully developed. I suspect your complaint was targeted at Sisi's management of the country, in which case this is a complete aside.
- frosted-flakes 6y agohenvic's comment was clearly said in jest.
- xkeysc0re 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
- frosted-flakes 6y agoDid you miss the "lol"?
- masterphilo 6y agoThanks. I guess years of browsing HN have made me immune to the significance of the lolz.
- yk 6y agoFunny enough, Herodotus reports in 500 BCE that that is pretty much how Egyptians felt at the time about the pyramids. [Edit:] Corrected 1000 year off typo...