I was strolling through the top floor of the brand new Parthenon museum in Athens which is indeed climate controlled, and state of the art, and there was a display of some of the friezes from the side of the top of Parthenon, and some of the triangular frieze on the front…. when I noticed some gaps, and a repeated implied message in Greek— “Attention British Museum, give us back the pieces of the Parthenon that Lord Elgin negotiated with a person who had no authority to sell them, and carted off. Put them here!!’
Its a tough assignment fighting a centaur but some ancient action figure like Herakles/Hercules has to do it.
Perhaps the strongest part of this museum, in so far as antiquities go, is the ANE portions including of course Egypt. Here is a sample of the things hauled off from Egypt….
There are a lot of things to see from Babylon, the Hittite culture, the battle of Lachish and much more but the above gives you a flavor of all this.
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