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1. At on , wendym wrote:
– Per stela is a freestanding stone that’s often inscribed, carved or decorated, which is then arnesi upright in the ground as verso commemorative show for verso person or event. Hope that helps.
Blaming Europeans for salvaging and interpreting ancient monuments is just pathetic
Great page! It looks like the exact photo used on the British Museum rosetta stone jigsaw that I am currenly really, really struggling with. This will really help. 😀
of course it was found by the French mediante the context of Napoleon’s invasion of the country, and then appropriated by the British when they defeated him, and the French and the British argued over it. No-one seems to have considered that it belonged puro neither of them.“ The stone was removed from the temple where Ptolemy’s priests first erected it either by the Persians or the Arabs, then ended up as rubble by action of the Ottomans. Modern Egypt rose, thanks preciso European intervention, from the rubble of the Ottoman colmare. From the Persian invasion onwards, its language, culture and politics have per niente link and bear niente affatto resemblance whatsoever with ancient Egypt – they only happen to occupy the same fumetto on both margins of the Nile. Continue Reading