{"id":389211,"date":"2010-03-04T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-8581002410173176653"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:29:46","slug":"a-law-to-punish-the-plunderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389211","title":{"rendered":"A law to punish the plunderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egypttoday.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=8865\">Egypt Today<\/a> (Nadine El Sayed)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt owns two thirds of the world\u2019s monuments.\u201d So says the government\u2019s state information service. It doesn\u2019t go into detail. But when you consider the abundance of national icons \u2014 the Pyramids, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Valley of the Kings \u2014 that draw thousands of visitors every year, the richness of the country\u2019s past can be overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>It is precisely this illustrious history, in the form of exquisite relics, excavated ruins and secrets yet to be unearthed beneath the sands, that is the subject of a new amendment to the antiquities law that has caused much debate in the People\u2019s Assembly (PA).<\/p>\n<p>Approved early last month after a year of discussion in Parliament, law 117\/1983 is being amended in a bid to preserve the nation\u2019s documented archeological heritage and prevent the expatriation of any future discoveries.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-8581002410173176653?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt Today (Nadine El Sayed) Egypt owns two thirds of the world\u2019s monuments.\u201d So says the government\u2019s state information service. It doesn\u2019t go into detail. But when you consider the abundance of national icons \u2014 the Pyramids, the Sphinx, Abu Simbel, the Valley of the Kings \u2014 that draw thousands of visitors every year, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}