donald r raab Wrote:
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> <<Hawass must go. You have no idea the level
> of his corruption, his nationalistic bias; corrupt
> self interests, cronyism, bigotry and
> chauvinism.>>
>
> If this is the case then ALL of those who bit
> their tongue to do research in Egypt have their
> research and findings contaminted. One does know
> what the term collaborator means. Egyptologists
> need to go back to the drawing board. AQnd
> West/Schooch are a good place to start.

(a) So two centuries of painstaking Egyptology would be undone by ten years of Zahi? Do you have any idea how ludicrous that is?
(b) If anybody bit their tongue around Zahi, it was out of tact, not collaboration. I understand he could be very difficult at times. However, although he was corrupt and megalomaniacal, he was still the legally constituted authority in the host country, in charge of administering legally binding antiquities ordinances. Western archaeologists working abroad remain very conscious that they are essentially guests in someone else's country. The Egyptologists did not choose Zahi, but they had to respect the Egyptian government's choice at the time.
(c) I repeat, your hostility to professional scholarship borders on the pathological. It is also a powerful indicator of your ignorance of how the field works. Though I'm starting to suspect you're simply a troll, merrily derailing would-be sensible discussions with your "gatekeeper" nonsense. Read a few books on the history of archaeology - try to get some sense of how the consensus has healthily shifted over the years, as the database has grown, and new frameworks of method and theory have been developed.