In 1905 a museum was built on Twin Peaks to house a world-class collection of Old Kingdom Egyptian artifacts excavated by George Reisner at Giza. In 1906 the museum was destroyed by the San Francisco earthquake, and Reisner left the west coast and spent the remaining 40 years of his career excavating the amazing collection of Old Kingdom art which forms the core of the Boston Museum's Egyptian collection. In addition to building a museum for Boston's collection, scholars have now built an innovative web site publishing all of the records from Reisners excavations (www.gizapyramids.org.) Meanwhile the UC Berkeley collection has been boxed up in basements for 100 years, largely forgotten, in a region which has no world-class museums of ancient art.

It is time for a grass-roots campaign to free the UC Berkeley Giza art and build a museum worthy of our region's history and technical ability. This tribe is dedicated to raising public awareness of the UC Berkeley Egyptian collection and encouraging foundations, corporations, and public entities to build a museum worth of this outstanding collection.

http://tribes.tribe.net/ucberkeleyegyptian