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Google for pictures of it. It's quite vibrant. There are even older Egyptian murals that are still colorful, too. Pigments can last a long time if you keep them
by mumblemumble 6y ago
Google for pictures of it. It's quite vibrant. There are even older Egyptian murals that are still colorful, too. Pigments can last a long time if you keep them out of the light.
That said, once you have looked at a picture of the mural, I strongly doubt you'll come away thinking that it's a picture of Vikings.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoWhile the particular mural may be in good shape I think it's worth pointing out that those Egyptian murals exist in the second best climate on earth for preservation (the first being the Antarctic desert). Nature is trying much harder to destroy anything of archeological significance in the jungles of central and South America and the Atlantic coast of the Northeast US and Canada. We're just never gonna have great information about these societies because a much larger fraction of the stuff they left behind will be gone.
- liability 6y ago> While the particular mural may be in good shape It isn't, it's gone. The image in the article is a watercolor reproduction made in the 1920s-30s. And even when they found it, it was as deteriorating fragments on the floor, which were subsequently lost to a hurricane.
- qubex 6y agoIt’s stunning how much discussion is being made by people who haven’t read TFA.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoGod forbid I not fact check everything in the comment I am replying to.