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Hortensis

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12. I first saw this dreadful tragedy in the small hours on TV.

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 3, 2018, 02:27 PM

Sep 2018

So yes. We all have lost irreplaceable treasures. Most of 20 million items, some also from Egyptian and Greco-Roman history.

"It is an unbearable catastrophe. It is 200 years of this country’s heritage. It is 200 years of memory. It is 200 years of science. It is 200 years of culture, of education.”

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