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by The Controversy on the Mansoor Amarna Collection will remain a problem and a pain in the neck of some Egyptologists and museologists for as long as it exists. Obviously, it degrades both Egyptology and museology. The longer it lasts, the more the degradation. To every problem, there's a solution and the problem of the Mansoor Collection will never be solved by itself. To be sure, it will never be solved by rumors, or by "hushing it up," or by "counterfeiting the truth" as I think Prof. Dr. Dietrich Wildung, Berlin, has been doing. Or by just following blindly other misled Egyptologists as Prof. Jean-Claude Grenier (Montpelier) so shamefully admitted (Exhibit #33 and #33A). An Infamy And A Pain In The Neck Of The BMFA? Indeed the "Technical Examination of Nine Tell-El-Amarna Objects" from the Mansoor Amarna Collection, which was issued on April 14, 1949 by the BMFA, will remain in infamy and/or a pain in the neck of the Museum for as long as it is not revoked. (The Mansoors paid the BMFA for that report.) If you, the reader, are a Bostonian, you may feel ashamed and cannot be proud of your MFA because of the aberration it caused. If you are a volunteer or a donor to that museum, you may feel guilty because you may think that you are contributing to crime, or to, at least, the delinquency of an institution failing its duties towards Bostonians and the public in general. "Contributing to a crime," because it has been stated by a scholar of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that "no scholar should ever call a real work of art a forgery. That is a crime." (The Truth ... p. 149.) "The delinquency of an institution failing its duties towards the public "because the following has been stated by a director of the American Association of Museums: "Museums exist to serve the public and they will continue to provide these services to the utmost of their ability and resources." (The Truth... p. 48.) Needless to add that I have seen, not necessarily any "utmost" from the BMFA or the BM in this matter, but I have not seen even an iota of decency from their part to right the wrong they created half a century ago. Therefore, the statement by the director of the AAM is neither sincere nor true, and is nothing but a plug in favor of museums to boost their image in the public's eye. You, the reader, as an honest person, no matter your title, position, profession, background and I do respect all, just as an honest person, I think you'll feel distressed, if not outraged that such an injustice has lasted fifty years. And should you analyze all that concerns the Mansoor Amarna Collection, i.e. the Himalayas of scientific and stylistic evidence, reports, articles on the sculptures among them three published in scientific publications, Exhibitions of the artifacts in the U.S., Italy and Egypt, catalogues, what I submitted as Exhibits as well as other Exhibits not mentioned or published before, you'll definitely agree that the positive eclipses the negative from far. In fact, it would be a joke to compare the bad with the good. Now, should you analyze only whatever nonsense, absurdities or garbage the dissidents wrote or stated, whether by Mr. Young, Profs. Wildung or Grenier or any other Egyptologist who voiced a negative opinion on the Mansoor Amarnas, I suspect that you'll agree that the unfortunate Collection has been misjudged, and tragically besmirched and injured for the last half century, due to some, many or all of the following calamities:
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