Very rarely do we consider how Western museums acquire ancient artifacts. Discover insights from Gregory Fewster on Egyptian artifacts in Canadian museums in the latest UTP blog post: https://t.co/sC7eKW3n3g @gpfewster.bsky.social
The original article is #FreetoRead until Nov 4
In a new blog post, Gregory Fewster explores the excavation of Egyptian antiquities by Canadian museums and challenges our assumptions about this process. Read the blog post, and the paper in Mouseion 20.1 (#FreetoRead until Nov 4): https://t.co/sC7eKW3n3g @gpfewster.bsky.social
How did so many Egyptian antiquities end up at @ROMtoronto? We know a little more about this process now thanks to two letters of BP Grenfell which I have now published and contextualized Have a read: https://t.co/x0h8Nb6prX...
#museums#archaeology#papyrology#oxyrhynchus
Thanks to @TheEES for allowing me to read this in advance and to Jeff Fish and Mike Holmes for answering my questions. A new second century Christian fragment would be a huge deal