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Old 08-11-2013, 06:57 PM #1
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Default Eygpt Archaeological Looters Not Stopped

Ch4HD Unreported World

Loads of tunnels dug under the Pyramids
They are selling them cheap on the Black Market


Tourists not there due to bombers


Amazing From so far back all gone
for small money.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world


One seller said it wrong
but what can he do - he has to Live


[Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Alex Nott find ancient archaeological sites being plundered by armed looters; people who previously worked as guides trying to survive without money or food and the corpses of horses and camels that used to carry tourists lying in piles in the desert next to the pyramids.

Egypt's economy has always relied on tourism, but since the army toppled the Muslim Brotherhood in a bloody coup, tourism has collapsed. The Giza Plateau is home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World and it used to have 10,000 tourists visiting every day. Now it's eerily quiet, with the average number of tourists more like 10 a day.]

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