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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 4625779, member: 110226&quot;]I think you&#039;re right.&nbsp; National governments such as Egypt like to control the narrative, and, for better or worse, politics does enter the picture, but this is nothing new when it comes to archaeology and goes back in the mists of time. </p><p><br /></p><p>To a degree I think this is so because of an attitude that the European powers in the nineteenth century had towards nations with ancient artifacts.&nbsp; A classic case is Elgin Parthenon Marbles, in the British Museum.&nbsp; Greece claims, I think with good cause, that these marbles were looted by Lord Elgin in the early 1800&#039;s, when Greece was still under Ottoman rule, and therefore should be returned as part of Greece&#039;s patrimony.&nbsp; To this day the issue is in stalemate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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