Dishevelled antiquity

The first time I saw a truly remarkable museum was when I visited London in the mid-1970s. The British Museum was not only grandiose but each artifact was displayed in such a way that visitors felt they were seeing something special. I remember walking through the Ancient Egyptian section of the British Museum and noticing the impeccable detail taken when displaying and lighting each of the artifacts. For the first time I really could appreciate the splendor of ancient Egypt. I continued on to Paris and visited the Louvre and again I marveled at the way they displayed antiquity from ancient Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Since then I have also visited museums in Rome, Berlin, Madrid, and Washington, to name a few places, and no matter the size or how prestigious the museum, the common thread that has linked all of the ones I visited is the importance that