World in Words Podcast: Attitudes to Graffiti from Ancient Egypt to Modern China

EPISODE · May 31, 2013 · 17 MIN

World in Words Podcast: Attitudes to Graffiti from Ancient Egypt to Modern China

from PRI's The World May 31, 2013 · host The World

The ancients had a much more relaxed attitude to graffiti than we do today. Egyptian muckety-mucks might even have welcomed a Chinese tourist's inscription on a stone relief of Alexander the Great. Also: in Germany, the state railway company is planning to deploy anti-graffiti spying drones. For more: http://www.theworld.org/language

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