For 18 days, the venerable Egyptian Museum received plenty of TV time as a backdrop for protests and clashes in Tahrir Square, and reports that it had been vandalized were a catalyst for early concerns about the long-term damage to the country’s crucial tourism industry.  On February 20, nearly four weeks after Police Day protests marked the beginning of the end of the regime of president Hosni Mubarak, the museum reopened its doors to a trickle of tourists. 

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