Silver Tongue

simplyahopelessdaydreamer:

I remember a teacher telling me how Archaeologists would hack off the noses of statues they found in order to remove any indication that it was of a black person or any POC. It hurts me to think of all the art we’ve lost and damaged because of historical revisionism and flat out racism.

Reblogged 4 years ago from bloodsbane (Originally from indya-moore)
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  14. highpriestessgwyn said: The real reason is because ancient Egyptians feared that statues of dead pharaohs were β€œalive” and watching them so they hacked the noses off to cut off the pharaohs powers…in ancient times. And the rest of them fell off over time like other ancient statues worldwide. If any of you actually studied Egyptology, you’d know this πŸ’€
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