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📍Off Killini beach in Greece.
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drawing a touhou character per day until i get them all (day 10; pc98)
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new species discovered in 1995, called "Girls",
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I don't know if here in Greece we do the same with our own artifacts and marbles, but for the British museum to own 100.000 plus artifacts and only displaying 6.000?? Yeah doesn't make any sense then not to give them back what is ours.
If fact not only it would be a smart choice but the museum could show to the world the other artifacts they have not yet shown to the world. That means people would come expecting nee stuff to see and we get our marbles.
Side note but the british museum also has The Nereid Monument, finest of the Lykian tombs found at Xanthos, in what is now SW Turkey, which is huge aside from many ancient Greek vases, small statues, plates etc.
Typically all large museums have big store rooms where they keep a lot of artifacts. Some are in maintenace, some are used for loans, some for seasonal exhibitions etc
In the museum of Ancient Olympia they have like 100 Corinthian helmets in good condition that are not exhibited at all, probably because there are, well, dozens of them, and only a handful are in the proper exhibits. Joke's on them though, I am still waiting for them to make an extra room / hall where they will exhibit all those helmets with mystical placement and lighting. Wouldn't that be cool? Besides, these helmets were offerings of ancient soldiers to the place they held sacred (Olympia), it's a pity for these helmets to be locked in store rooms for nobody to see.
But for a FOREIGN museum to do it, that's insane. And let's just say they are keeping an extra collection for the aforementioned reasons. 100 thousand artifacts?????????????? Like this can not be explained or justified no matter how hard one tries. This is some inexcusable insufferably entitled shit right there.
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Eileithyia and Sosipolis sketch
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