Loading ...Why do So Many Egyptian Statues have Broken Noses?
SOURCE: CNN BY: JULIA WOLKOFF The most common question that curator Edward Bleiberg fields from visitors to the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian art galleries is a straightforward but salient one: Why are the statues’ noses broken? Bleiberg, who oversees the museum’s extensive holdings of Egyptian, Classical and ancient Near Eastern art, was surprised the first few … Continued