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 | | Despite Egypt 's refusal to sign the UNESCO convention, a regulation of cooperation exists between museums, which are bound to take measures against anyone who presents a stolen item to the museum for authentication, or who offers to a museum such an item for sale. |
 | | Ancient Egypt is a profitable business for many, from those who legally trade relics of the past (as when the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the early 1970's sold off thousands of the smaller items in its Egyptian collection) to the blockbuster money making exhibits of Egyptian antiquities in museums. |
 | | In Upper Egypt, for example, the Valley of the Kings is subject to periodic flash flooding, and all but nine of the tombs in the Valley have flooded, while many have been completely filled by flood debris. |
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