The Louvre opens on Wednesday's until 10 PM, since there is so much to see this is the best day for us, and it's also cheaper. We have some must see, The Mona Lisa, Near Eastern antiquities specially the room of the code of Hammurabi, (room 3) The Greeks, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities and if we have time The Egyptians
From their web site
Passing on Knowledge |
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| Through writing, the Near East gave rise to a culture that handed down a dual heritage to the Western world: the biblical tradition on the one hand, and the transmission of Greco-Roman knowledge on the other. The exile of the Jews from various countries of the region to Babylon in the 6th century BC did have a positive consequence in that it enabled the people of the Holy Land to assimilate the store of knowledge that had developed in Mesopotamia since the 3rd millennium. With the rule of Alexander the Great in the late 4th century, the Near East from the Mediterranean to India became Greek, while retaining its intellectual heritage, which it bequeathed to scholars of various cultures. Greek and Hebrew authors, theologians, philosophers, and mathematicians thus safeguarded a tradition that is thousands of years old—despite the fact that the civilizations that created it have completely disappeared. Furthermore, in the Near East, this ancient knowledge was transmitted in written texts by Arabic, Turkish, and Persian scholars, who endeavored to conserve ancient texts from Babylonia and the Greek civilization. |
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