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Published: 07 February, 2012, 19:52


Lost antique artifacts return to Berlin after decades (Photo: Ägyptisches Museum)

A Berlin museum is celebrating the return of dozens of Byzantine artifacts, which spent years in Soviet Russia after World War Two. Some date back as far as the 4th century – yet it is their recent history that reads like a real detective story.

 
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Where did art work came from at first? February 07, 2012, 21:20 quote
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This art came to Germany via colonial looting so why return it to Germany now? German Museums are full of work of art looted from Egypt and Africa and other parties in the world. This art work should have stayed in Russia . Alas.

Averon February 08, 2012, 00:44 quote
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As theese are Byzantine artifacts, the most suitable place for them would be in Greece, but even Russia has more to do with them than Germany. And yes that was colonial looting. Germany had stolen it, then russians stole it from them, that's it. Why to give it back to Berlin?

Atossa February 08, 2012, 05:51 quote
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Christian Byzantium spent a lot of time and effort to find, recover and preserve religious artifacts. I'm surprised they didn't find God's Ark of the Covenant. Perhaps they didn't know where to look.

The Third Reich conducted archaeological expeditions in Iran. The jew movie, "Raiders of the Lost Ark", is an example of "art" imitating life.

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Peole steal kinds of things February 08, 2012, 06:17 quote
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America found a mummy behind the Niagra Falls of all places in a little cave

Atossa February 08, 2012, 06:28 quote
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Which part of "Niagara Falls", US or Canada?

I've been to the main falls in Canada... awesome !

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Atossa February 08, 2012, 06:47 quote
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I am well aware of the fake in Ethiopia Africa.

But since you brought it up... it is interesting [at least to me] that there was another place in the Middle East also called "Ethiopia" by the ancients. In one of the Greek legends of Perseus, Perseus slays a sea monster to rescue the Princess of "Ethiopia"... no, not in Africa... but in what was later called Joppa... which has now been swallowed by Tel Aviv... anyhoo... as the Greek legend goes... Perseus marries the Princess of "Ethiopia" [Joppa] and their son, Perses become the founder of Persia... hence where the name Persia originates. Perses = Persia. So here we are again... back to Iran. ;-)

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Bomb February 08, 2012, 06:52 quote
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Them

Atossa February 08, 2012, 06:52 quote
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Btw... some say the ancient Greek legend of Perseus slaying the sea monster is the origin of the symbol, St George slaying the dragon. However... it may go back even further... the family seal of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Aryan Persian empire, is a warrior on horseback spearing a [human] enemy being trampled underfoot. :-)

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BOMB February 08, 2012, 06:56 quote
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THEM TOO

Atossa February 08, 2012, 07:15 quote
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Thanks Canada... that mummy link was very interesting.

A Pontotoc stele found in Oklahoma - part of what appears to be Akhenaten's famous hymn to the Sun - was reportedly made by early Iberian colonists in America, 800BC.

Akhenaten was only rediscovered in modern times when his city in Egypt was discovered in the 19th century... like St Constantine... Akhenaten built a new city founded upon the One [Sun] God !

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Atossa February 08, 2012, 07:53 quote
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My father was a self-made archaeologist... and I spent a large part of my childhood exposed to archaeology and on archaeology expeditions... sometimes on university digs... sometimes independently. I was "robbing graves" since I was able to walk... and have been in some awesome places. Perhaps that is one reason I am... let me put it this way... somewhat different than the average Babylonian. Thank You, God ! :-)

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You speak like February 08, 2012, 07:59 quote
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an Alien

Atossa February 08, 2012, 08:13 quote
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I speak [write] like an adult... or how an adult should speak [write.]

Maybe it's because my brother and sister were much older than I, so there were four adults in my family when I was growing up. Unlike some people here who apparently never grew up.

Or maybe it's because I like to read [mostly non-fiction.] Unlike other people here who... if they read at all... prefer perverted trash.

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Atossa February 08, 2012, 08:14 quote
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I speak [write] like an adult... or how an adult should speak [write.]

Maybe it's because my brother and sister were much older than I, so there were four adults in my family when I was growing up. Unlike some people here who apparently never grew up.

Or maybe it's because I like to read [mostly non-fiction.] Unlike other people here who... if they read at all... prefer perverted trash.

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OK an February 08, 2012, 08:29 quote
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Illegal Alien

Atossa February 08, 2012, 08:35 quote
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I was born here, so I'm not an illegal alien. However, I do feel like an alien captive of Babylon.

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Atossa February 08, 2012, 08:47 quote
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I seek a better country... that shining city on the hill.

RT should be promoting Russia as the glorious, saintly, shining city on the hill that inspires and elevates.

"The light of the world. A city on a hill that cannot be hidden."

Instead RT promotes Russia as America's 51st perverted state.

It's makes me very sad. :(

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Atossa February 08, 2012, 09:21 quote
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When I was a child I wanted to be an archaeologist. But the work of an archaeologist is not as glamorous as shown in Hollywood movies. It's a lot of hard work and often with few results. Fragments of a lost civilization don't speak to archaeologists immediately. Many years of further study and more excavations are required. And many times, the complete truth behind the bits and pieces... symbols of an long forgotten world... is never known.

So, when I was a child, I wanted to be an archaeologist that had a psychic ability to know the truth immediately. It was a child's wish. I am not an archaeologist... but in a strange and wonderful way... my wish has been granted. :)

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ok February 08, 2012, 09:30 quote
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ok a Babylonianalien

Atossa February 08, 2012, 09:41 quote
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What is your point ?

Your "alien" reference struck me because I am "alienated" from America-Babylon... and that is a good thing... because Babylon is evil.

" By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?

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