Surviving Time AND Humanity

In case someone reading this didn't know, let me fill in a little back-story. The setting takes place in Egypt, and there were a lot of problems going on within the last several weeks. Ex-President Hosni Mubarak has lead Egypt for the last 30 years. In all of that time, he has done nothing for the economy other than let it slowly slide to deficit. The people finally became fed up. They wanted him gone, and to prove it they held protests in major cities such as Cairo and Suez. These protests were not peaceful in their entirety. People were harassed, beaten, and even killed. Among all of this chaos, one issue really stuck out to me. The Egyptian Museum of Cairo was burned and looted. It did not burn down completely of course. The major issue happens to be that artifacts that have been kept for decades, after being uncovered from millennia of slumber, were stolen. This problem shows once more that in the darkest hour (no pun intended) of the museum's life, humans have no honor in leaving sacred artifacts unscathed. The reason that this bodes ill for me is because I love the arts. I'm more of a music-lover myself, but art is art, and history is a form of art that needs to be left alone. What really surprised me is the fact that all of the Islamic monuments and artifacts were left alone. They must really mean something to the citizens of Cairo...