director of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE): Egyptologists "heartened" by demonstrators

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http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/01/news-from-cairo-arce-director-dr-gerry.html

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Dr. Scott said that for now ARCE intends to keeps its staff in the country. “At the moment, yes, we will stay and wait (and see) how things develop in terms of whether we can function or not,” he said.

Scott has been stuck in his apartment over the Egyptian weekend (Friday and Saturday) and has had only limited communication through a landline. He started the interview by praising the protesters who held hands to protect the Egyptian Museum.

“Everybody in the Egyptological community, I think, has been very heartened by the fact that the demonstrators sort of linked hands last night when they thought that the Egyptian Museum was in danger.”

They “made it clear that the Egyptian Museum was a place where Egypt’s treasures were and it belonged to the nation.”

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