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- Write For Egyptological
Egyptological Kate and I are looking for more articles for future editions of Egyptological in all sections (Journal, Journal Reviews, Magazine, Magazine Reviews and In Brief). Your photos are also very welcome for a Photo Album. Although we are particularly...
- Book Review: Loot
Truthdig (review by Karl E. Meyer) I devoured “Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World” with particular zest, having published in 1973 an earlier account of the same cultural underworld, “The Plundered Past.” A seasoned...
- 3400 Year Old Book Of The Dead
The British Museum's curator Dr John Taylor has located pieces of a New Kingdom book of the dead that once belonged to a high priest of Amun in around 1420 bc. The fragments are kept in the Queensland Museum but there are other pieces in various...
- The Search For Nefertiti
Joann Fletcher Hodder & Stoughton 2004 London ISBN 0 340 83304 1 This book and television show caused quite a scandal five years ago when Egypt's antiquities Majordomo Dr. Zahi Hawass felt that Ms. Joanne Fletcher had deceived him in drawing conclusions...
- The Valley Of Kings By Otto Neubert, Ca.1957
Otto Neubert Robert Hale Limited 1957 ASIN: B000U04LWI This fascinating book is filled with unusual highlights from excavations in the first half of the twentieth century. Complete with a mention of the recently found mask of Kanefernefer before it was...
Egypt
Book Review: Loot
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Another review of Sharon Waxman's somewhat controversial book. Mind, it's not a subject that one can write about without upsetting somebody.
Loot - The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
By Sharon Waxman
The title, stamped in gold capital letters on the dust jacket, gives away the author's agenda: This is a muckraking book about art objects from ancient cultures that have found their way into major museums of Europe and the United States. Sharon Waxman has a nose for scandal and spends much of the book following up on reports of thefts by grave robbers, smuggling by dealers and sexual hanky-panky between museum personnel.
The result is an odd volume, part scandal mongering and part travelogue, wrapped around a philosophical question that could have been discussed in a book a tenth of its size . . . .
Waxman, a former correspondent for the New York Times, recounts tales of arrogance, greed and lust in museum personnel who, however well educated, are all too human in their daily affairs.
The reporter's search for the telling detail can make Waxman long-winded: Do we really need to know that a curator wears light blue eye shadow or that the president of a museum has a disco ring tone on his cell phone?
But the questions Waxman raises are real, and her proposals to remedy the situation are the start of a much-needed discussion.
See the above page for the full story
- Write For Egyptological
Egyptological Kate and I are looking for more articles for future editions of Egyptological in all sections (Journal, Journal Reviews, Magazine, Magazine Reviews and In Brief). Your photos are also very welcome for a Photo Album. Although we are particularly...
- Book Review: Loot
Truthdig (review by Karl E. Meyer) I devoured “Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World” with particular zest, having published in 1973 an earlier account of the same cultural underworld, “The Plundered Past.” A seasoned...
- 3400 Year Old Book Of The Dead
The British Museum's curator Dr John Taylor has located pieces of a New Kingdom book of the dead that once belonged to a high priest of Amun in around 1420 bc. The fragments are kept in the Queensland Museum but there are other pieces in various...
- The Search For Nefertiti
Joann Fletcher Hodder & Stoughton 2004 London ISBN 0 340 83304 1 This book and television show caused quite a scandal five years ago when Egypt's antiquities Majordomo Dr. Zahi Hawass felt that Ms. Joanne Fletcher had deceived him in drawing conclusions...
- The Valley Of Kings By Otto Neubert, Ca.1957
Otto Neubert Robert Hale Limited 1957 ASIN: B000U04LWI This fascinating book is filled with unusual highlights from excavations in the first half of the twentieth century. Complete with a mention of the recently found mask of Kanefernefer before it was...