11-10-2009, 06:54 AM
Quote:Its annoying that the finds were taken by the Ministry of Antiquities and ignored. But the Egyptian government seems to prefer to publicize periods when Egypt was independent, especially the Bronze Age which draws tourists.Yes, indeed. If you go to the Cairo museum, there's a lot d.XVIII, but the Persian age gets almost nothing. Most irritating. The Persians seem to be the victim anywhere; in Ankara, in the museum of Anatolian Civilizations (the plural is part of the museum's mission, which stresses that Turkey has always had many cultures), there are only a couple of objects from the Persian age. And in Amman, the total number of Persian age objects is exactly three.
