Musee Asiatica

This article is for all those who are lovers ofcivilizations. These weapons were votive offerings
ancient heritage. In the lines I am sharingand are much too heavy for hunting or warfare.
something that came into my knowledge andAnd the metal is bronze, much too soft. But it
very interesting. Welcome to the Muséewas very valuable - perhaps more valuable than
Asiatica - founded in 1999 by Michel Postel, agold at the time.
scholar and collector, the temporary keeper andJewellery, personal adornments from long, long
protector of these treasures. It is his desire thatago can be seen with a variety of necklace
visitors to his Museum discover more about thepearls, made from ceramic, agate, crystal and
ancient arts of India, Nepal, Tibet and China, andmolten glass. There would have been beads of
enrich themselves with the culture of these Asianmetal, too. But those made from gold and silver
countries.and other metals were probably melted for their
The remains of ancient cremations on thevalue.
riverbanks, tiny, personal objects, pearls fromEarrings that were fixed in stretched earlobes of
necklaces, amulets, and earrings fallen into theivory, almost splintered and burnished in the
ashes, buried in the earth... and washed up afterfuneral flames. Some of them made of crystal,
the rains. This, too, is a unique collection. No otherterracotta, polished stone, molten glass and metal.
museum has anything like it.One of them has a little bell inside.
Metallic weapons made of bronze and date backYou may be wondering why these are explained
to a period known as the Bronze Age. They werein such a walkthrough manner, the simple answer
found in India, the Gangetic Valley - that rich andto this is, the way I got introduced to them, am
fertile land that was the site of many latertrying to share in the same way.