cm0002@lemmy.zip to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 days 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-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10
arrow-up112arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square4linkfedilink
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days 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-up1·3 days agoOf course they can’t look after it, it’s gone
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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