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The current demolitions taking place in the northern cemetery in Cairo (and the lack of acknowledgement from Egyptology that perhaps this is an issue) are, BTW, one of the reasons why I edited this book, which I had promised a thread about: https://www.routledge.com/Histories-of-Egyptology-Interdisciplinary-Measures/Carruthers/p/book/9780367868390 https://twitter.com/w_carruthers/status/1285526375454121985
Egyptology had, for a long time (and until people like Donald Reid and @AbuMrouj wrote correctives) celebrated its history; the discipline's colonial background more often exuded a sense of glamour.
There was often no sense, for example, that that same colonial background in fact informed the discipline and its practices, and that perhaps that might be something that needed dealing with.
