Hawass: No Guilt By Association!

I had to chuckle when I heard Zahi Hawass in the middle of a NBC story about restoration work on the step pyramid have to assert in the words of the reporter that he was "the victim of a witch hunt for anyone who worked for the old regime." See
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/43778980#43778980 (1:59).

Hawass' allies in the archaeological establishment like blogger David Gill should heed their hero's message. Yet, Gill in particular is predictably doing his darnedest to use "guilt by association" to damage the reputations of targets as diverse as the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the C. Carlos Museum, and the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild. See
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2011/07/accg-charity-charged.html and
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2011/07/lewis-collection-and-virginia-mfa.html

Gill purports to be a serious scholar and the AIA deems his work worthy of an award. Based on such foolishness, however, one has to question whether either is the case.