glennjamin
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It belongs in a museum!
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Post by glennjamin on Sept 8, 2005 7:17:17 GMT -5
I've been to the British Museum a few times recently. I have a great interest in the Ancient Near East. Their collection has a great deal of artifacts from Ancient Greece, Rome, Turkey, the Holy Land, Persia and Egypt. Fantastic stuff.
The doorway to the Ancient Near East rooms is guarded on either side by those huge winged Assyrian lions with human heads. I walked through a hall, the walls on either side displaying carved reliefs from the South-West Palace of Nineveh, built by Sennacherib. In another room, you can see reliefs of one of his successors, Ashurbanipal, hunting lions from his chariot.
Two and a half thousand years ago, this was all in a King's palace.
Awesome.
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Post by erriwan on Sept 8, 2005 16:58:32 GMT -5
Two and a half thousand years ago, this was all in a King's palace. Awesome. yeah they stole a lot of stuff!!! :lol:
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glennjamin
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Post by glennjamin on Sept 9, 2005 12:42:09 GMT -5
Yeah, they may have stolen it, but at least it's preserved. I saw an interesting documentary last week on a guy (forget his name) who revolutionised Egyptology by turning it from a "gentleman's" toy-hunt into a proper science, cataloguing everything. There were three kinds of people. A. Treasure-seekers looking only for something that would look good on the mantelpiece, and wouldn't clash with the colour of the drapes. B. Historians hoping to save some of antiquity's treasures for future generations to appreciate. C. Locals who needed bricks to repair their own house. You look up 19th Century articles on Egyptian sites, and visit some of them today, and there's nothing. I'm with Indiana Jones on this one... "It belongs in a museum!" ;D
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