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I always wonder if all those reports are real, are inflated (to show some bad-looking-past and how noble we are today) or if was a form of hiding a kind of robb
by woliveirajr 7y ago
I always wonder if all those reports are real, are inflated (to show some bad-looking-past and how noble we are today) or if was a form of hiding a kind of robbery (see, I found something, but wasn't possible to bring it to the museum/king/whatever because... my team just burned it).
- loco5niner 7y agoConsidering most people couldn't read, I believe it
- dredmorbius 7y agoin 1778, a Danish classical scholar named Niels Iversen Schow bought a papyrus scroll from a hoard alleged to have been discovered near the pyramids at Giza, whereupon the “native” sellers reportedly tore up and burned the rest so as to enjoy the pungent smoke. -- Keith Houston, The Book https://www.worldcat.org/title/book-a-cover-to-cover-exploration-of-the-most-powerful-object-of-our-time/oclc/958290032 https://www.worldcat.org/title/book-a-cover-to-cover-explora... Citing: James G. Keenan, “The History of the Discipline,” in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, ed. Roger Bagnall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 59.