I wanted to see the Egyptian section of the Museum. What I saw was startling. Egyptian eyes looking back at me. To take them out of place and time and suspend them in mid air with no context is an injustice to the artifacts and to the Egyptians. The Hatchpsute temple is next to my house and we see it as part of our life.
Women go to the temple for fertility purposes and men go to it seeking healing.
It is still the stuff of daily life. This disrespect is unfair to the French, too. It makes the French who visit Egypt look for a museum, empty of Egyptians and any context. What they will see is that Egypt is a badly organized museum. If we empty Egypt out of the Egyptians, we may be able to organize this land in the same way that the Louvre is organized.