2024-06-06 12:32:03
The well-known Egyptian archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, referred to as for “the closure of an English museum, after it provided historic Egyptian skulls on the market.”
Hawass stated, in a televised interview with Egyptian media: “Providing historic Egyptian skulls on the market is an immoral, disrespectful and hideous factor,” noting that “mummies are offered at public public sale, which is unusual conduct.”
He pressured that he was “pleased with what an English consultant stated and her assertion on this matter that it was colonial conduct,” including: “European museums and in Western international locations should cease colonial conduct and purchase stolen antiquities.”
He defined that “the Egyptian antiquities had been taken through the French and English colonial interval, and are nonetheless current in European museums,” calling for “the museum to be closed.”
Based on the “Al-Ahram Gate” web site, the archaeologist acknowledged, “Within the sixteenth and 18th centuries, England and France had been sending pirates to Luxor, and 1000’s of mummies left Egypt at the moment, which had been utilized in medical supplies,” stressing that “there is no such thing as a museum in America, Britain, or France doesn’t have an Egyptian mummy, and all of those mummies are non-royal.”
Final yr, the descendants of a British soldier in World Warfare I provided on the market the pinnacle of a 2,800-year-old historic Egyptian mummy, which had been saved in a closet for many years.
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