It’s going to feel strange to see an ancient Egyptian artifact outside of it’s natural habitat, The British Museum, but that’s a cool find anyway.
Egypt Recovers 2,000-Year-Old Statues From Sunken City
Submitted 4 days ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to archaeology@mander.xyz
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/statues-recovered-sunken-city-canopus-2682316
sj_zero 3 days ago
Honestly, the most interesting thing to me was the highly geometric stand on the right. Looks like a footing for a building or something. Seems entirely out of place in a 2000 year old archaeological dig, looks like something you'd buy at home depot.
That sounds like a dig (ow archaeology pun not intended), but sometimes it's the boring structural stuff that's the most interesting. One reason I really like Max Miller's Tasting history -- seeing what a person would be eating at a given point in history really connects me to the people who lived through that time more than fancy pieces of art that the best people of the age would have put together and the richest people maintained.