Gods, tombs and Nazis: the Third Reich's bad relationship with Egyptology | Culture

Anti-Semitism and the Hitler regime’s obsession with the past of the Aryan peoples put the brakes on the study of the ancient Pharaonic civilization in Germany, despite what is shown in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’

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