Monday, October 20, 2014

Mshatta Facade

A facade from a 8th century caliph's palace from what is now Jordan. The Ottomans gave this to Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was totally smashed in WW II and was restored by the Soviets.
Ironically, there are a lot of complaints in the displays in this and the Neue Museum, which holds a lot of Egyptian antiquities, about all of the treasures the Soviets purloined from Berlin at the end of the war, especially the artifacts relating to German prehistory.

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