The statue formed the centrepiece of the Pharaoh’s tomb a thousand years before the birth of Christ. An enormous bust of the feline Bast. Shortly after the Roman annexation, grave-robbers spirited it across the Mediterranean to sit in the courtyard of a provincial governor. Centuries later the Savoys gifted it to Napoleon. And in 1943 Hitler sequestered it. For decades tourists lined up in London to marvel at its magnificence before it was taken to another museum far away.
“From that new planet we colonised,” muttered one green creature to the other before moving on to the next exhibit.
“From that new planet we colonised,” muttered one green creature to the other before moving on to the next exhibit.
