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- 1. At on , wendym wrote:
– A stela is a freestanding stone that’s often inscribed, carved or decorated, which is then arnesi upright in the ground as verso commemorative esibizione for per 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 solitario stone jigsaw that I am currenly really, really struggling with. This will really help. 😀
of course it was found by the French in 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 puro have considered that it belonged esatto 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 to European intervention, from the rubble of the Ottoman completare. From the Persian invasion onwards, its language, culture and politics have in nessun caso link and bear in nessun caso resemblance whatsoever with ancient Egypt – they only happen preciso occupy the same striscia on both margins of the Nile. The Arabs removed countless pieces – especially the columns – from ancient Egyptian and Greek temples to prop up their mosques. Con the process, Islam erased most of what then existed of Egyptian culture. Modern Egyptians would have no timore 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 the continuity between ancient and modern Egypt con so many ways, despite the changes sopra 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 con its own past, but more recent studies are sovrano-assessing this, such as Okasha el-Daly?s work on medieval Egyptian scholar?s attitude sicuro the antiquities, and Donald Reid?s work on early modern Egyptian Egyptology. And niente affatto one can question modern Egypt?s commitment puro 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 to the basic needs for food and shelter, when successively occupying the same terrain under the same climate, unless new production and transportation technologies https://datingranking.net/it/casualdates-review/ are brought sicuro bear. This may give an impression of continuity. The peasants I’ve seen waiting at train stations per the Delta could very well, by dress and demeanour, be taken for their predecessors on the way preciso the market 3,000 years ago. However, instead of the deep connection onesto the land and puro the rhythms of the river one would expect to 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 rete informatica, what was left of its original writing could not be read. And yes, stones – columns, statues, pietra sepolcrale – were constantly reused by many civilisations and turned into rubble. One has only preciso visit the Citadel mediante Cairo puro see that. So, again, my point: why the reprimand puro Europeans implicit durante your quote? “?of course it was found by the French in 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 sicuro have considered that it belonged preciso neither of them.” The stone belonged esatto per niente-one. Should the French soldiers who found it have left it where it was, or the British not have taken it to London, perhaps thinking that one day, maybe, the rightful owners, whoever they turned out onesto be, would get around preciso reading it? There is in nessun caso moral case for leaving knowledge buried per deference preciso ignorance.