Jeepman:
To excuse the restoration as being to “third world” standards because of its location is specious. You only need the google the Great Egyptian Museum at Giza to see the intent and what can be achieved.
How much more attention is spend on the Giza museum as opposed to an aeronautical one? How much for funding does it receiver given that Egypt’s economy relies so heavily on tourism and Tourists almost always go to Egypt to see the relics of the Pharaohs. And here is the clincher: How much international help and expertise is given the Giza museum in preserving its artifacts?
That restoration is pure technological and museological incompetence. No more, no less
It is a very good example of such, but was that the best the museum could do with the staff it hand on hand? The tools it had on hand? The information it had on hand? And the money and materials it could spare?
That is all speculation but then so is the assumption that the museum just didn’t care.
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