Johnny:

I reckon any person dumb enough to hang around a dead body for 2000 years deserves to be trifled with. What these mummies are is remains -- like rusty bumpers and broken oil-pans, you can't call cars. If my body got dead and wrapped up in a tomb like a mummy, I'd be out of the territory in a split New York minute.

And no, there is a hell of a lot of a difference between a scientist and a looter. A looter wants to know what a tomb can give him, so he can steal the wealth. A scientist wants to understand what the tomb has to say. This actually enhances the wealth. What value would the tomb of Tut ever have had to posterity, without a scientific analysis?

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