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Jordan_the_Hutt t1_ir52l1v wrote

Reply to comment by something_facetious in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER

That's a valid argument. I think what we need is a multinational museum collective that owns and loans a large number of antiquities. It would be horrible to live in a world where no museum has any significant foreign objects. So for example the met could donate 1 piece to the collective which would entitle then to one loan. They then apply to take out a specific piece, and it gets moved to the Met for 1 year. Country of origin always moves to the top of the list for taking out there own pieces.

A system like this would alow people all over the world to continue to be inspired by foreign artifacts while still not depriving the country of origin from seeing those artifacts. Of course this is not a perfect system, many artifacts should simply be returned to their country if origins and there would be a lot of details to work out but with growing globalization I do think it's important for artifacts of world history to be available to the world.

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Br12286 t1_ir525zo wrote

Reply to comment by Laserbarrage in See lifelike facial reconstructions of a medieval Scottish woman, priest and bishop by unheated1

I always think that too when I see these. How do they know if they had full lips or thin ones? How do they know what the tip of their nose looked like when it’s all cartilage? I’m sure they get close but there are just some features they can’t ever get right because the reference for it doesn’t exist and is left to interpretation.

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smittythehoneybadger t1_ir4ysr2 wrote

Reply to comment by smittythehoneybadger in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER

I apologize for confusion, I didn’t mean it in that the Greeks spoke Latin so much as that if a Latin speaking artist sculpted it, would we not use his terms? I know the two are essentially the same, but wouldn’t the distinction matter? Or did they recognize that Ares and Mars were the same entity?

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Anthemius_Augustus t1_ir4uy78 wrote

Reply to comment by TorchedBlack in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER

>The byzantine empire was the breakaway empire of the eastern Roman empire.

It wasn't a "breakaway empire" of the Eastern Roman Empire, it was the Eastern Roman Empire. Strange wording. It's not like the "Byzantines" 'broke away' from the Eastern Empire, they were the same thing.

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