Incompetent Egyptian art blamed on Persian deportations

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http://www.livescience.com/49059-ancient-egyptian-coffin-odd-art.html

An ancient Egyptian coffin with strange and amateurish decorations has been revealed ...
The coffin bears a series of unusual features that are likely related to the Persian Empire's deportation of artists ...
"Many of the best artists in Egypt were taken by the Persians back to Persepolis and Susa as POWs and war booty you can see their work in those places. There seems to have been a dearth of masters for some time, so that fewer and fewer artists got proper training," Gayle Gibson, an Egyptologist and educator at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, told Live Science...
There are several odd features on the coffin that reflect the lack of knowledge the ancient artist had, Gibson said.