What is the secret of crashing many statues of Egypt?

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – If you interview Edward Bleiberg, curator of the Brooklyn Museum, on one of the most common questions that he receives from visitors to Egyptian art galleries, his answer will be "Why is the nose of the statues broken?"

Of course, the curator of the museum was initially surprised by this question, whose answer was taken for granted: the statues were damaged. You may find it natural to damage an artifact after thousands of years. This, however, prompted Blaiberg to look for reasons to distort the majority of Egyptian works of art.

A collection of artifacts will be transferred from the Brooklyn Museum to the Pulitzer Art Foundation later this month, under the supervision of the museum's curator, Stephanie Weissberg.

The exhibition "The striking power: the iconoclasm in ancient Egypt" will include statues dating from the 25th century BCE to the first century AD.

The exhibition helps people understand one of the world's oldest civilizations, whose visual culture has been the same for thousands of years. Despite the reflection of the stability of the long empire, external invasions and power struggles among leaders have left their mark.

"Repetition of motives in a coordinated way at the scene of the injury suggests that they have a reason to be," said Bleiberg, quoted for his multiple political, religious, personal and criminal motives for acts vandalism.

Bleiberg explained that the damaged part of the body stops working. For example, the spirit of a statue stops breathing when his nose is broken. So, the person responsible for such an act is "deadly".

The practice of the destruction of human images dates back to the beginnings of Egyptian history. Blumberg said deliberately damaged mummies in prehistory are in fact "a fundamental cultural belief that damaging the image means harming the person who represents it."

The ancient Egyptians took steps to protect their sculptures: the statues were placed in tombs or temples to protect them from three sides. Despite these precautions, they did not work well. "These people are not really terrorists, they are people trained and hired to do the job," he said.