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- 1. At on , wendym wrote:
– Per stela is per freestanding stone that’s often inscribed, carved or decorated, which is then set upright sopra the ground as a commemorative spettacolo for verso person or event. Hope that helps.
Blaming Europeans for salvaging and interpreting ancient monuments is just pathetic
Great page! It looks like the exact photo used on the British Museum brillante stone jigsaw that I am currenly really, really struggling with. This will really help. 😀
of course it was found by the French durante the context of Napoleon’s invasion of the country, and then appropriated by the British when they defeated him, and the French and the British argued over it. No-one seems to have considered that it belonged puro neither of them.” The stone was removed from the temple where Ptolemy’s priests first erected it either by the Persians or the Arabs, then ended up as rubble by action of the Ottomans. Modern Egypt rose, thanks sicuro European intervention, from the rubble of the Ottoman riempire. From the Persian invasion onwards, its language, culture and politics have per niente link and bear giammai resemblance whatsoever with ancient Egypt – they only happen esatto occupy the same striptease on both margins of the Nile. The Arabs removed countless pieces – especially the columns – from ancient Egyptian and Greek temples onesto prop up their mosques. Per the process, Islam erased most of what then existed of Egyptian culture. Modern Egyptians would have per niente intenzione of their “heritage” if it wasn’t for the efforts of European scientists.
As verso European Egyptologist, I must admit that I am always struck by App bookofsex the continuity between ancient and modern Egypt con so many ways, despite the changes per religion and languages over the centuries. And the Egyptian language survived into the Christian Period, of course. Many accounts have down-played the extent that Egypt has been interested mediante its own past, but more recent studies are re-assessing this, such as Okasha el-Daly?s rete di emittenti on medieval Egyptian scholar?s attitude puro the antiquities, and Donald Reid?s sistema on early modern Egyptian Egyptology. And in nessun caso one can question modern Egypt?s commitment sicuro the study and preservation of its own heritage. Incidenrtally, the reuse of earlier monuments for building material is something that was very extensively practised by the pharaohs themselves, most famously perhaps by Ramses II. Richard Parkinson, curator British Museum
Different cultures will apply very similar solutions sicuro the basic needs for food and shelter, when successively occupying the same terrain under the same climate, unless new production and transportation technologies are brought to bear. This may give an impression of continuity. The peasants I’ve seen waiting at train stations con the Delta could very well, by dress and demeanour, be taken for their predecessors on the way esatto the market 3,000 years ago. However, instead of the deep connection esatto the land and puro the rhythms of the river one would expect puro see back then, their faces spoke only of dislocation and despair. The Egyptian language – or its descendant dialects – survived indeed in many places into the Christian Period, but was mostly replaced by Arabic not too long after the Muslim conquest. Before Champollion’s sistema, what was left of its original writing could not be read. And yes, stones – columns, statues, targa commemorativa – were constantly reused by many civilisations and turned into rubble. One has only sicuro visit the Citadel sopra Cairo sicuro see that. So, again, my point: why the reprimand esatto Europeans implicit per your quote? “?of course it was found by the French per the context of Napoleon’s invasion of the country, and then appropriated by the British when they defeated him, and the French and the British argued over it. No-one seems to have considered that it belonged to neither of them.” The stone belonged to no-one. Should the French soldiers who found it have left it where it was, or the British not have taken it puro London, perhaps thinking that one day, maybe, the rightful owners, whoever they turned out sicuro be, would get around onesto reading it? There is no moral case for leaving knowledge buried mediante deference puro ignorance.