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- You knew my father?
- Only by reputation.
- I haven't heard about him lately. Has he retired?
- My father is dead.
- I'm sorry. Please accept my sympathy.
- May I have your coat?
- Won't you sit down?
- Thank you.
- Well, this is indeed an honour. To meet someone who has taken part in unearthing so many of the sacred secrets of my country.
- Are you interested in archaeology?
- Yes, I am. Academically, that is. Not commercially.
- It has often puzzled me about archaeologists. Has it never occurred to them that by opening the tombs of beings who are sacred, they commit an act of desecration?
- If we didn't, the history of your country, indeed a great part of civilisation, would still be unknown.
- Nevertheless, those tombs were sealed for all time. You're an intruder. You force your way in, you remove the remains of the long dead kings and send them to places like the British Museum, where thousands of people can stare at them.
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