How Nasser Gave Away Egyptian Temples

[Mark]

Interesting article. I hadn't realised the Dendur temple in the NY Met had "sister" temples at other museums (in Madrid, Leiden and Turin).

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/46243/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypts-pharaonic-temples-exhibited-abroad-relate-t.aspx

The story about the man in NY being dumbfounded on being told the temple was over 500 years old reminds me of a trip to the Natural History Museum in London. At the end of the dinosaur exhibition, which was illustrated by a number of robots, there was a "sleeping" young robot dinosaur in a glass cube. A lady next to us pronounced at length as to how cruel it was to keep it in such a confined space.