Word: etruscans
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...Unfortunately, it turned out the vessel had been looted - from an Etruscan tomb outside Rome - and Italian authorities embarked on a decades-long campaign to get it back. Two years ago, the Met finally packed up "the hot pot," as Hoving liked to call it, and returned it to Italy as part of an agreement under which the museum also returned 20 other disputed items...
...sloppy. Stumble up to Spanish class. Tell Gov 20 that you love it, many times, in a loud voice. Maybe drunk dial Ec 10. Here are some rules to drink by: 1. Any lecture that ends to the tune of “and that is why Ancient Etruscan Transgender Practices are important to your life today” deserves a hearty toast, for effort at least. 2. If your hot TF seems suspiciously more flirtatious than usual, offer her/him a swig of Rubinov from your Poland Springs bottle. This is your last chance. Ask them when you could meet...
...would write to missionaries serving in the most remote corners of the world, offering a modest contribution in return for two samples of the local currency. He would sell one and keep the other, a self-financing collection that eventually grew to more than 200,000 pieces--from ancient Etruscan rings and Incan gold to Kenyan elephant tails and Babylonian clay tablets, all of which he kept in a vault in the basement of his house...
...photographers and academics, always three or four languages spoken at the table,” it’s evident that following the nomadic lifestyle choices of his parents, Kaushik has come to define himself as a man without a state, a globe-traversing war crimes photojournalist.Though the Etruscan scholar Hema knows that in two weeks she is to return to India to wed in an arranged marriage, she feels, in the liminal space of Rome, “free of her past and free of her future in a place where so many different time stood cheek by jowl...
...trafficking in stolen antiquities, and 10 years later, Marion True, a curator at the Getty Museum, was charged with being a co-conspirator. As the Getty Museum’s curator of antiquities since 1986, True allegedly purchased tens of millions of dollars’ worth of Greek and Etruscan artifacts from Hecht and Medici...