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Sharon Waxman
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“I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how it ended up there? Is it only the unschooled visitor who looks at the soaring column from the Temple of Artemis at the Met and questions why it exists in this place?”
― Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
― Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
“He discovered a cartouche from Abu Simbel in which he could identify the name of Ramses. Upon making this breakthrough, he rushed from his apartment, found his brother, cried, “Je tiens l’affaire!”—“I’ve got it!”—and dropped into a dead faint. In a letter dated September 27, 1822, Champollion wrote of his discovery to the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. And within two years he completed a Précis du Systeme Hieroglyphique, showing that the script was a mixture of ideographic and phonetic signs.”
― Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
― Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
“As cultural politics change, museums change with them.”
― Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
― Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
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