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By Micah Halpern
Thursday October 8, 2009 I've Been Thinking: Egypt has officially severed all ties with the Louvre in Paris. The Louvre is one of the greatest museums in the world. It houses some of the greatest artifacts of Western civilization. Some of those artifacts were discovered in Egypt and then taken to Paris. Egypt wants the artifacts back. In Egypt, France expropriated great national treasures and brought them back for display in their world class museum, making it an even greater and more famous museum. The Louvre has responded. The official response is that the museum not against returning the national treasures to Egypt, but there is a bureaucratic process to follow. Egypt has ratcheted up the pressure. Read my new book THUGS. It's easy. Just click. 4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts
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