Cairo
Hook nose, blue chin, Arab headdress: the tomb robber resembled a villain from a Tintin comic. His friend was packing a big pistol and behind them it was sunset over the pyramids at Dahshur, south of Cairo.
Looting’s been rife in Egypt since antiquity — but there has been an alarming acceleration since the 2011 revolution, and Hook Nose and Big Pistol are in up to their respective necks.
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Aidan Hartley reports from Egypt on Channel 4’s Unreported World this Friday at 7.30 p.m; to watch, visit spectator.co.uk/tombraider
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