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Deciphering the Rosetta Stone debate
Image via Wikipedia Andie Byrnes has posted a compendium of articles regarding the repatriation of the Rosetta Stone. Much of the information is of course repetitive, and while the majority if not all of the writers seem to agree on keeping the historic relic at the British Museum, comments are divided. We live in a much different... »
The new Nebamun Gallery at the British Museum
Richard Parkinson is a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, at the British Museum. Later this month he’ll be opening a major new permanent gallery, one that will display the famous wall paintings from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun in a splendid new environment. Conserving and researching the paintings, and deciding on... »
Britain to return Egypt sculpture
Cheap souvenirs from Egypt are usually made in China from plastic resin coated in black paint. That’s exactly how a British antiques restorer smuggled a priceless head fragment of Amenhotep III out of Egypt – by dipping it in plastic resin and painting it black to make it resemble a cheap copy. Now the ancient... »
