A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology)

had, as seen in previous chapters, a positive inXuence on archaeologists in their
studies of the antiquities of Italy, Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia. However, the
reception of ancient monuments and works of art from the Great Civilizations
of other parts of the world such as Latin America and Asia would provide a
challenge, an issue to which we now turn in Chapter 7.

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