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Egypt Asks British Museum For Rosetta Stone
The Art Newspaper ^
| 6-21-2007
| Martin Bailey
Posted on 06/22/2007 2:33:41 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
06/22/2007 2:33:42 PM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
2
posted on
06/22/2007 2:34:05 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border then, Introduce an Illegal Immigrant Deportation Bill)
To: blam
3
posted on
06/22/2007 2:36:02 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border then, Introduce an Illegal Immigrant Deportation Bill)
To: blam
“Borrow”. Oh ya, you’ll get that back.
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posted on
06/22/2007 2:39:48 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
(KZ-6090 Smith W.)
To: blam
"..Finally, there will concerns over whether it would be prudent to lend to Cairo, because of possible pressure in Egypt to retain the stone or request its permanent return. ..."
The people living in Egypt today are arabic they have no relation to the makers of the Rosetta Stone. If left to them they would never have made sense of the translation.
To: blam
I'm guessing Muslims
want to destroy it because
it "insults" their "faith" ...
To: Anti-Bubba182
The people living in Egypt today are arabic they have no relation to the makers of the Rosetta Stone. If left to them they would never have made sense of the translation. The people living in Egypt are blood descendants of the Pyramid builders. The religion and culture changed, not the people.
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posted on
06/22/2007 2:49:59 PM PDT
by
LoneRangerMassachusetts
(The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah. The only good Mosque is the one that used to be there.)
To: mgstarr
Borrow. Oh ya, youll get that back.
I too have mixed emotions about this, but it would be productive, I think, to arrange these kind of efforts with significant finds. Providing said country is stable, economically and politically, and has the means to provide proper care and security. Perhaps even to house them in their country of discovery. With the above provisions, and with the understanding that they would travel to other countries regularly. This would help to encourage the moderate middle eastern countries to remain participating in the modern world of nations.
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posted on
06/22/2007 2:54:21 PM PDT
by
mutley
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
The people living in Egypt are blood descendants of the Pyramid builders. The religion and culture changed, not the people. The people living in England are also blood descendants of the Pyramid builders.
It's a matter of mathematics. A blood line either dies out after a few generations, or it will spread geometrically. After a period of 2000 years, every single person on Earth will be a descendant of any blood line that has not expired.
So can we close that particular moronic argument, please?
Drew Garrett
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posted on
06/22/2007 2:58:26 PM PDT
by
agarrett
To: blam
Possesion is 9/10ths of the Law from what I recall. Tell the Egyptians to go pound sand.
10
posted on
06/22/2007 3:02:40 PM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
To: blam
Another question: Should the British return all the stuff they took from Greece as well?
To: blam
That’s the thing about the BM, nothing in it is British.
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:14:14 PM PDT
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: agarrett
It's a matter of mathematics. A blood line either dies out after a few generations, or it will spread geometrically. After a period of 2000 years, every single person on Earth will be a descendant of any blood line that has not expired. So can we close that particular moronic argument, please?'
So George Bush descended from the Zulus, and Colin Powell from the Teutons. Gee thanks, I woulda never figured it out without your help.
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:16:53 PM PDT
by
LoneRangerMassachusetts
(The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah. The only good Mosque is the one that used to be there.)
To: blam
“Can we borrow the Rosetta Stone back?”
“Uh.......NO!
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:18:03 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Constantine XIII
Just the stuff they admit they stole.
Ie the parthenon marbles
(based on a firman which was presented as an incomplete English translation of an Italian translation of a recreated from memory “lost” Turkish document.)
It is pretty well documented.
Even the fact the British museum scraped off the paint, bleached the marbles and lord duveen’s copy making operation degraded the marbles every time he made a copy for sale to his rich friends.
The new museum is almost done in Greece so the british will no longer have the “safe placement” excuse too.
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:19:32 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Constantine XIII
The British stole all that stuff fair and square, that’s fine. If they want to keep it, I’d suggest they not start loaning it out to the various nations/cultures who want it back.
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:19:34 PM PDT
by
Blackyce
(President Jacques Chirac: "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.")
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Nothing of value should be “returned” to islam.
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:19:59 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
So George Bush descended from the Zulus, and Colin Powell from the Teutons. Gee thanks, I woulda never figured it out without your help.
I find it quite remarkable, that anyone alive at this very moment, can claim a lineage, not just from the beginning of humanity, but from the beginning of life...period. All the way back to the first cellular organism... However that happened.
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:26:55 PM PDT
by
mutley
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
So George Bush descended from the Zulus, and Colin Powell from the Teutons. Gee thanks, I woulda never figured it out without your help. That's correct, and you're welcome.
Should you be sarcastic, I point you to the following papers:
Unpublished paper by Dr. Rohde of MIT
NAS Paper by Dr. Ohno (abstract only online)
Hope that satisfies your interest in the subject. If not, please show your math,
Drew Garrett
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:27:01 PM PDT
by
agarrett
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts; Anti-Bubba182
"The people living in Egypt are blood descendants of the Pyramid builders. The religion and culture changed, not the people."DNA Tests Halted on King Tut
DNA tests of Tutankhamun and his presumed grandfather, Amenhotep III, were initially approved, but have now been halted by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. It was hoped that the tests would resolve a question regarding Tutankhamun's father. No reason has been given for the decision to stop the tests, but there is some concern that the results might be used to revise Egyptian history. The other recent news concerning mummies involves the use of computed tomography (CT) scanning to provide images of mummies without tampering with their wrapping. Nine mummies were scanned and the scans used to compute realistic 3D images of the individuals.
(This suggests something is amiss. blam)
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posted on
06/22/2007 3:27:15 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border then, Introduce an Illegal Immigrant Deportation Bill)
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