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Interview with Dr Irvin Finkel, curator in the British Museum in London, United Kingdom 
March 31, 2024
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| Culture, International Diplomat, Mfosse, Morient, Travel Reportage

Have you ever heard about the Royal Game of UR or Cuneiform writing?  Interview with Dr Irvin Finkel, curator in the British Museum in London, United Kingdom  It is not everyday that you have a chance to meet one of the world’s most famous specialists on cuneiform writing. Dr Finkel has written many books both scientific and fiction, and is a true scholar whose activities include giving lectures, some of which you can find on YouTube. He is in…

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Decolonization of a museum? By Robert James Parsons
April 5, 2023
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| Afrique, Contributing Writers, Culture, Europe

Decolonization of a museum? By Robert James Parsons At a time when the vast colonial empires of the European powers have disappeared, the word “decolonization” has mostly slipped into the history books. Using it as the basis for an ethnography museum’s strategic four-year development plan would strike most people as strange – to say the least. Yet this is exactly what Geneva’s Museum of Ethnography (MEG by its French acronym) decided to do. At a press conference in September…

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