Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.
Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.
The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.