[denydenydeny]

A preview of what to expect if and when the Ikhwan takes over. Afghanistan was and is a nearly empty cultural backwater, but Egypt is not.

These creatures will definitely dynamite the Sphinx and the Luxor statues, and probably the pyramids as well.

[masadaman]

..."definitely dynamite the Sphinx and the Luxor statues..." The so-called civilized French army got to the Sphinx and destroyed its nose before they were stopped by Napolean himself. Alexander's minions and later robbers stripped the pyramids of all their alabaster and white marble facades, the tombs by then were largely stripped of all valuables.

My point is that the spectacular building skills and art of the ancient Egyptians c.3100-1200 BCE have never been duplicated. Progress is not a linear upward incline.