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I'm sure if they could find them they would prefer to sift through the carefully curated museum archives of ancient civilizations, but the trash heaps tend to b
by jameshart 9y ago
I'm sure if they could find them they would prefer to sift through the carefully curated museum archives of ancient civilizations, but the trash heaps tend to be what we find.
- pharrington 9y agoHardly prefer; though the comparison of the ancient's curations with their general first-hard records and remains does provide fantastic insight as to the biases of the ancient archivers.
- jfoutz 9y agoI thought Egypt was a good example of this. The monuments to power are easy to find, but day to day life of people, and their views and opinions about the world are much tougher to come by. The stuff people took the time to carve in stone survived. And not much else.
- WalterBright 9y agoAncient Egypt is a great example. We have what they wanted us to see, the stories carved on the monuments. But we're interested in what really happened!
- hamandcheese 9y agoI'm sure that our landfills provide a more honest picture of day to day life than our museums.
- ianferrel 9y agoThey want both. There are things that you can learn from discarded ephemera that won't get preserved in museums due to cultural values and taboos.
- hexane360 9y ago>carefully curated museum archives of ancient civilizations That's how you come away with the idea that ancient civilizations were perfect utopias with better, happier citizens.