Does Egypt's Indiana Jones Have a Hidden Agenda?
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New finds are being generated more prolifically than at any time since 1997 when more than 60 people, mostly Japanese and Swiss tourists, along with Egyptian police and guides, were killed by an attack on the archaelogical hotbed of Luxor, perpretrated by extremists from the outlawed Islamist Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, a terror group with links to Ayman al Zawahiri and Al Qaeda. That attack not only made ensuring the safety of tourists in the country more problematic, but it made archaeology much more challenging and risky as well.
So, both the volume and importance of new finds coming from Egypt are remarkable, particularly considering the continuing extreme unrest elsewhere in the Middle East. Thanks for this are due, according to many, to the stewardship of the man sometimes referred to as the Egyptian Indiana Jones, the head of the Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, the singular Dr. Zahi Hawass
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