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Re: An American viewpoint
Mar 30, 2013, 11:49
thesweetcheat wrote:
It's also a bit sad that the thrill of "old" seems to be linked to the possessions of "kings and queens". I'd be far more excited about a scraper or saddle quern that an ordinary person used than some throne. The most moved I've ever been by an object in a museum is by this in the British Museum:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/fboyd/6042396643/



Seeing so many engravings at the recent Ice Age Exhibition left me spoilt for choice, two things though the engraved swimming reindeers carved from a mammoth tusk....

.http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/DyfP6g6dRN6WdwdnbIVbPw

and the head of a muskox carved from a rock, its heavy brow part of the rock with an exquisite carved horn on the side the other horn had been lost.

Then of course the horses cave painting from Chauvet Caves but then what about the lions, rhinos and bears, there is just no choosing ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Chauvethorses.jpg
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