mo4ch:>‘We realized how daft we’d been’: British Museum made glaring mistake for years | Mo4ch News

While typically only the best and brightest minds can land a job at the world’s art, history and natural history museums, even brainy boffins can sometimes make rather glaring mistakes, showing there’s hope for us all.Back in in November 2018, the British Museum launched the small ‘No Man’s Land’ exhibition to highlight “ancient and modern perspectives and attitudes towards the territories, landscapes and man-made borders of the Middle East.”Three ancient objects are used to recount the tale of the earliest recorded border conflict between two Sumerian city states, Lagash and Umma, around 3,000 BC. These objects are juxtaposed with modern photographs shot recently in southern Iraq.While a poignant reminder of our shared inability to learn from the mistakes of the past, the curators realized they themselves had made a glaring error: one of the displayed objects, long-assumed to be a vase, was in fact the mace head of King Gishakidu of Umma.“We realized how daft we’d been,”said Irving F…