Comments for The Monuments Ancient Egypt Erected to Sun God Have Become Brazilian at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:53:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8799/54/#pc_11829 I think you misread me. I was referring to the Arab world. - Ed RIcketts Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:26:51 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8799/54/#pc_11803 The colonialists plundered. But in some cases treasures spirited out to foreign museums would have been lost if not taken. Local thieves selling antiquities to highest bidder. The fact that in Italy and Greece, marble art treasures were for years broken up and used as stubble for crude houses. Pol Pot was not an outsider but a Cambodian, and even though Noam Chomsky just loves him, he killed two million people in three years, started with the artists, destroyed art works. A Marxist-Leninist but a local. It was the Taliban that messed up art treasures in Afghanistan, not westerners. Plenty of blame to go around but for wanton destruction, the locals have it all over the hegemons. - Ric Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:15:33 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8799/54/#pc_11797 I always find it shocking when the plunder of colonialists is displayed. It harkens back to the bad old days of cultural hegemony inflicted upon the Arab world. - Ed Ricketts Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:49:57 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8799/54/#pc_11777 Is always gonna be a problem. Now I understand that civil rights groups are lobbying for a replica of The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II. We have a plaster replica but it´s only half size. - Ric Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:11:39 +0100