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Egypt Nixes the Louvre
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.
The museum pieces were never loaned to the Louvre, they were booty taken to bolster France's colonial empire. They were expropriated during a period in history when Empires established colonies around the world and then proceeded to exploit the citizens and the natural resources - including historical and archeological sites.

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.
They are getting nowhere going the bureaucratic route.

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