Egypt
Time Magazine (Richard Lacayo)
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- The 3cs Of Discussing Heritage Online
Voices of the Past (Jeff Guin) There are few yearnings that span the human race, across cultures, political beliefs and past history more than the compulsion to understand our identity. Part of that is understanding where we come from. This understanding...
- Let's All Have Tickets To The Universal Museum
Times Online (Ben Macintyre) The visitors pouring through the doors of the British Museum represent the triumph of an idea born in the white intellectual heat of the Enlightenment - as valuable today as it was 250 years ago when the museum first opened,...
- Antiquities Opec?
TIME (Richard Lacayo) Greece and Italy have taken a step towards joint action in the smuggle struggle — the fight to regain illegally exported antiquities. (via) Greek Minister of Culture Mihalis Liapis was in Rome this week to meet with his Italian...
- Ancient History For Sale
http://tinyurl.com/yhh57l (forbes.com)"Michael H. Steinhardt believes there is money in antiquities. The legendary hedge-fund-manager-turned-full-time-philanthropist has quietly managed to assemble one of the largest and most important antiquities collections...
- Museums And Controversial Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/jag7z (Business Week)A useful overview of the current state of play following the recent spate of claims by countries who believe that they have the right to demand the repatriation of antiquities currently held by foreign museums....
Egypt
Who Owns History?
Time Magazine (Richard Lacayo)
An article that looks at the broad potential impact of Italy's determined pursuit of items that it believes were removed illegally from the country.
In this climate, the question of ownership of the past has taken on a real edge. "Source nations" like Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey and China--homes to the world's ancient civilizations--think of antiquities as national property, essential to the construction of the modern nations' identity. Which in part they are. The problem is whether that idea can accommodate the no less plausible notion that the products of ancient civilizations are also the heritage of all humanity. Our encounter with Shang-dynasty bronzes, Central African carvings and Aztec-calendar stones is part of how we construct for ourselves a human identity that transcends mere nationality. To put it mildly, in a time of rising nationalism, that's an urgent project. Why shouldn't things produced by all civilizations be widely available, not just as traveling blockbusters but on a permanent basis, to impress on people everywhere the greatness of other cultures?
See the above page for the full story.
- The 3cs Of Discussing Heritage Online
Voices of the Past (Jeff Guin) There are few yearnings that span the human race, across cultures, political beliefs and past history more than the compulsion to understand our identity. Part of that is understanding where we come from. This understanding...
- Let's All Have Tickets To The Universal Museum
Times Online (Ben Macintyre) The visitors pouring through the doors of the British Museum represent the triumph of an idea born in the white intellectual heat of the Enlightenment - as valuable today as it was 250 years ago when the museum first opened,...
- Antiquities Opec?
TIME (Richard Lacayo) Greece and Italy have taken a step towards joint action in the smuggle struggle — the fight to regain illegally exported antiquities. (via) Greek Minister of Culture Mihalis Liapis was in Rome this week to meet with his Italian...
- Ancient History For Sale
http://tinyurl.com/yhh57l (forbes.com)"Michael H. Steinhardt believes there is money in antiquities. The legendary hedge-fund-manager-turned-full-time-philanthropist has quietly managed to assemble one of the largest and most important antiquities collections...
- Museums And Controversial Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/jag7z (Business Week)A useful overview of the current state of play following the recent spate of claims by countries who believe that they have the right to demand the repatriation of antiquities currently held by foreign museums....