The right-wing populists want to drive out the successful director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Christian Greco. Meloni’s culture minister is rushing to his aid for the time being.
It has been almost 225 years since one of the world’s most important linguistic testimonies, the Rosetta Stone, was rediscovered by Napoleonic soldiers in Egypt; The find – today in the British Museum in London – was a sensation. The fragment of a stele from 196 BC contains a decree in three different scripts and therefore helped to decipher the enigmatic Egyptian hieroglyphs. It therefore shows a certain humor when the Italian Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano attests to the director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Christian Greco, that he “did not decipher the Rosetta Stone, but he worked with commitment and successfully”. The minister wrote in a letter that he doesn’t know Greco personally, “but he enjoys an excellent reputation and many believe that he has done a good job. I can only be happy about that.” There is no prejudice against him, let alone a threatening campaign to “drive him out”.