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Egypt repatriates two ancient Egyptian statues from Belgium
Al-Ahram Weekly ^ | Monday, September 12, 2022 | Mohamed Soliman

Posted on 09/18/2022 11:09:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Assistant Foreign Minister for Cultural Relations Omar Selim (L) and General Supervisor of the Repatriation Antiquities Department Shaaban Abdel-Gawad during the hand-over of two ancient statues retrieved from Belgium
photo courtesy of the official Facebook page the Egyptian foreign ministry
photo courtesy of the official Facebook page the Egyptian foreign ministry

1 posted on 09/18/2022 11:09:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 09/18/2022 11:09:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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3 posted on 09/18/2022 11:12:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

They’re safer in Belgium


4 posted on 09/18/2022 11:15:33 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

Until the muzzie takeover, they are.


5 posted on 09/18/2022 11:16:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Feel free to post any of these, I plan to get to some or most or maybe all of them over the next week, but it won’t hurt my feelings (he said, in his passive aggressive way) if someone else posts them first, then ping me to them. ;^)

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2022/09/12/archaeologists-uncover-2600-year-old-blocks-of-white-cheese-in-egypt/

https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/west/news/2022/09/16/tosa-homebrewer-and-uwm-professor-reviving-ancient-beer-recipes/10388501002/

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humans-animal-husbandry-dung-fuel-fire-syria-stone-age

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/963960

https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-poop-suggests-humans-tended-animals-2000-years-earlier-than-we-thought

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/09/early-scottish-farmers-didnt-use-manure-to-fertilise-their-fields/144641

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-bronze-age-food-vessel-unearthed.html

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-piece-story-ancient-roman-city.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/science/archaeology-mayan-mexico.html

https://www.livescience.com/massive-trauma-on-south-american-mummies

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/2300yearold-skeleton-unearthed-in-hcm-city/237279.vnp

https://upd.edu.ph/new-last-ice-age-findings-in-palawan-cave/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62901846

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/09/archaeologists-discover-giant-stone-jars-in-india/144632


6 posted on 09/18/2022 11:20:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The standing man looks like he is either pulling or pushing something - now lost.


7 posted on 09/18/2022 11:41:45 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SunkenCiv

They were safer in Belgium.


8 posted on 09/18/2022 12:05:07 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: SunkenCiv

“intensive efforts to retrieve thousands of artefacts found in the unlawful possession of museums and individuals around the world.”

....so the Moslems can claim they created this civilization long before Islam existed.

....then, in time, they will categorically destroy all these artifacts because they are a sacrilege to Islam.


9 posted on 09/18/2022 12:18:25 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Psssssttt... Hey Egypt...

Saint Peter’s Square in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican is one of the most famous landmarks in the world. Over 100,000 people have been known to squeeze into Saint Peter’s Square on occasions like Easter or midnight mass or after a conclave takes place and a new Pope makes his first appearance to the massive crowds on the square. However right in the center of Saint Peter’s Square, you will find a monument that is impossible to miss called an Egyptian Obelisk. These Obelisks were taken from Egypt by the Ancient Romans so it is rather ironic that right in the center of Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican is a stolen object. So what is an Egyptian Obelisk and why does the Vatican have one?

10 posted on 09/18/2022 12:34:05 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: SunkenCiv

And the Rosicrucians are sad


11 posted on 09/18/2022 12:35:34 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Heh... the Romans really liked those, and boosted a bunch. That one in particular was brought over for Caligula, and the boat that had to be built to transport it was so large, even by Roman standards, that it became a tourist attraction in its own right. Eventually, Claudius had it sunk end-down for use as a form to pour the concrete mole to anchor the breakwater for his all-season port.


12 posted on 09/18/2022 12:36:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for adding to the history!


13 posted on 09/18/2022 12:38:01 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: PIF
A vacuum sweeper -- the electricity generated the Great Pyramid revolutionized Old Kingdom Egypt.
Rimshot!

14 posted on 09/18/2022 12:38:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

It’s interesting that a negative impression of the interior construction probably still exists, buried by centuries of silting-up of the Roman-era harbor, and perhaps some of the wood itself.


15 posted on 09/18/2022 12:39:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Little Ray

For now.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4094311/posts?page=4#4


16 posted on 09/18/2022 12:41:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So you want people to repudiate history?

Oh ok you bet


17 posted on 09/18/2022 12:41:33 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Nifster

Repudiate woke BS, as I clearly stated, so shove it.


18 posted on 09/18/2022 12:44:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Nah - he was a workman helping to restore the Great Pyramid’s electrical generator, broken when the barbaric Egyptians invaded and attacked the Westerners, driving them out.

But the hoped for rewards never materialized, because when they tried to fire it up again, they put too much material into the King’s Chamber; it exploded, pushing the relieving blocks out of alignment - damage that can be seen today.

After that abject failure, they stripped off any precious metals they could lay their hands on, while making all the monuments built by the Westerners into their own, leaving us to puzzle out what was what, who did what to whom, and when.


19 posted on 09/18/2022 12:52:28 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SunkenCiv

You are delusional

All this article does is discuss who all was on sight during certain discoveries

You are working overtime to be offended


20 posted on 09/18/2022 1:21:33 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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