The “economic crisis” is hitting Egypt so bad, it “cannot afford to keep its museums open let alone search for ancient buried treasures,” Antiquities Minister Khaled El Enani told Reuters in an interview. He says the state has had to close 20 museums down nationwide since 2011 because there were not enough resources to run them. “Without a revival in tourism none of his new projects, such as the introduction of year-long museums and heritage site passes or extending opening hours will have the desired effect.” El Enani adds. One exception to this is the planned partial opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the construction of which was financed by a loan from Japan. Separately, the Minister said he has no plans to open up King Tutankhamun’s tomb in search of the lost burial site of Queen Nefertiti. “The most minor of incisions in the wall could wreak damage to an inner chamber that may have been hermetically sealed for so many years,” Reuters notes and El Enani says the radar scans did not show 100% proof that there were empty spaces” behind the tomb.