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[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 44 points 11 months ago

It's not even right, since the French were the ones that stole most of the artifacts out of Egypt. Then the English stole them from the French.

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 33 points 11 months ago
[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

THERE'S the science (math)! We found it everybody! It's over here

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The joke is that the British have an incredibly problematic history literally centuries-old of taking things from other cultures and going “well, it’s ~~ours~~ the world’s now.“ Many of these communities have been asking them literally for decades to return them, but they simply won’t even to this day.

There was a time where they could maybe make the claim “this is the best way to preserve them,“ but for the vast majority of cases that time has long since passed and it was flimsy to begin with.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mummies are indeed best preserved in the stomachs of rich aristocrats.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Those rich aristocrats better stay tf away from my Mommy then.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don't let your mommy become a mummy either.

(i fixed the typo. Thanks )

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

We didn't just steal artifacts. We stole whole countries. At one point the empire covered a quarter of the planet. And it wasn't that long ago either.

The artifacts were just the souvenirs.

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

It's mostly due to early "archeologists" being almost entirely trust fund babies born into the aristocracy and to whom it was a contest to make the craziest claims possible.

See the OG trench at Troy that went completely past the end of the Bronze Age and dumped all of the important artifacts into a refuse pile that is apparently still being sifted through today.

Also see early "paleontologists" who seemed to use Dino bones in an attempt to make monsters scary enough to make kids cry.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That's because we brought too many scientists to Egypt instead of soldiers like the Brits did.

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