cm0002@lemmy.zip to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 18 hours agoA Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athenswww.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down10
arrow-up186arrow-down1external-linkA Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athenswww.smithsonianmag.comcm0002@lemmy.zip to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 hours agoMost of the planet probably has more respect for historical artifacts than the British Museum.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoIkr, this is such an elegant example of the narrow mindedness of the ‘grand old institution’ that ‘curates there treasure of the backward countries that cannot look after them themselves’
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoOf course they can’t look after it, it’s gone
Most of the planet probably has more respect for historical artifacts than the British Museum.
Ikr, this is such an elegant example of the narrow mindedness of the ‘grand old institution’ that ‘curates there treasure of the backward countries that cannot look after them themselves’
Of course they can’t look after it, it’s gone