Comments on: King Tut Goes Home https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/ Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:32:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: SimonG https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/#comment-498015 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:32:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/#comment-498015 I remember seeing the treasures at the British Museum in the 70s and there’s some amazing stuff there, even disregarding the archaelogical and anthrophological significance. Anybody holidaying in the Middle East would be poorer if they didn’t make the effort to see it. I expect the permenant exhibition will do very well.
Mind you, there’s an awful lot of other stuff worth seeing.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/#comment-498014 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:13:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/#comment-498014 Oooh, ooh, when’s it going to Melbourne? Maybe I can fly there. Is that the one in Florida or Australia?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/#comment-498013 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:26:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/#comment-498013 Nankay: A more appropriate statement would be “You’ll have to go to Giza/Paris to see the treasures/painting” then “it will cease to exist because it is in Egypt.”

Perhaps I’m being oversensitive, but we all have our thing we’re oversensitive about (admit it, you do) and mine is the way Africa is addressed in popular culture (and elsewhere).

]]> By: Nankay https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/#comment-498012 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:13:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/13/king-tut-goes-home/#comment-498012 Ok, it may be ‘odd”, but anti-Middle Eastern? Really? For someone like me, the Mona Lisa going back to Europe or King Tut going back to Egypt is , for all intents and purposes, ‘disappearing’. I, like many others, do not, and probably will not ever have the opportunity (or finances!) to travel to either of those places to see those treasures.

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