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GR you are taking a beating.

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Are all these museums wrong?

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collect ... es=&c=1&s=

Many designs use the cross motif, which may have originated from the Greek invasion by Alexander the Great.

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How about a Russian Slavic museum, comrade? Too funny

http://hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_7_1_1b.html

The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

The Greek world penetrated deep into Central Asia in the centuries after the invasion of Alexander the Great. The coins of the Greek kings of Bactria and north-western India illustrate the mingling of Greek and native cultures. This coin shows a Greek king wearing a local headdress on the obverse and the Greek god Poseidon, representing the Indian trident-bearing god Siva, on the reverse.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tacg/hd_tacg.htm

During the mid-fourth century B.C., Macedonia (in northern Greece) became a formidable power under Philip II (r. 360/59–336 B.C.), and the Macedonian royal court became the leading center of Greek culture. Philip's military and political achievements ably served the conquests of his son, Alexander the Great (r. 336–323 B.C.).

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Glyptothek, Munich, Germany

http://tinyurl.com/cvy8rf

III. Hellenism

Alexander the Great conquered by 330 BC the Persian empire. This was the Greek art of the ancient world. The Hellenistic sculpture plays with the emotions of the beholder. Against the ideal beauty of the previous era put the artists also aspects of horror, violence and the ugly.

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wee, look at me

Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece

http://www.amth.gr/en/newexhibitions.html

The exhibition “Towards the birth of cities …” presents the material remains from settlements and cemeteries dating to the Iron Age (1100-700 BC) in the region extending between Mt. Athos and Olympus. At Kastana, Philadelpheia, Assiros, Toumba-Thessaloniki and elsewhere, settlements which are characterized by self-sufficiency and which controlled the sources of the region’s wealth were founded or re-founded.

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How about an Egyptian museum brother?

http://www.bibalex.org/english/artsmuse ... /greek.htm

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt


During the reign of Ptolemy I, successor of Alexander the Great to the throne of Egypt, Alexandria received a great number of Greek artists who admired the calm and cheerful atmosphere of Alexandria. Gradually, with the mingling of these Greek artists with Egyptians and adopting some of their traditions and beliefs, a hybrid mixture of Greek and Egyptian art emerged.

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United Arab Emirates Museum? Yes it is.

http://www.aam.gov.ae/sections/hellenistie.htm

Al Ain National Museum, Al Ain,
The Hellenistic culture was the result of the cultural interaction between the Greek civilization and the civilization of the ancient Near East. This took place after the conquest of Alexander in the Near East. Here in the Arabian Gulf, traces of this culture were evident in the 3rd century BC.

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The Oriental Institute LOL

http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/is/ritner2006.html


The occupation of Egypt by Alexander the Great caused Greeks to settle in Egypt...