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"The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found", and yet not a single picture or illustration of said tomb. This disappoints me greatly. When I was 13 I wondere
by probably_wrong 5y ago
"The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found", and yet not a single picture or illustration of said tomb.
This disappoints me greatly. When I was 13 I wondered what did Tutankhamun's tomb looked like, and yet it took me over 20 years until I saw an actual illustration. Looks like reporting on ancient tombs hasn't gotten any better since.
In case anyone else wonders what the tomb looked like, I found this layout:
http://www.arth.upenn.edu/522/puabi/puabi.html http://www.arth.upenn.edu/522/puabi/puabi.html
- agumonkey 5y agoYou got me to find pics of Tutankhamun's tomb and indeed I never saw much either https://www.vintag.es/2015/11/the-discovery-of-tutankhamun-in-1920s.html https://www.vintag.es/2015/11/the-discovery-of-tutankhamun-i... some shots are surprising.. the mess, the simplicity yet the eternal feeling of it
- gerbilly 5y ago> the mess The mess is because it was raided in ancient times, then hastily cleaned up and re-sealed.
- pavlov 5y agoMaybe. Another theory is that Carter and Lord Carnarvon faked the ancient raid to work around an Egyptian law that assigned untouched grave finds entirely to the state, but previously raided tombs would be split with the finder. In the end they didn’t get to ship that half of the treasure to British Museum and the NYC Met as they’d planned, as the newly independent Egypt asserted its rights more quickly than they’d expected.
- agumonkey 5y agoJust like we saw recently with the Robert Capa article.. history is often fuzzy right :)
- kingcharles 5y agoIncredible!
- mcphage 5y agoIt might not be lavish in terms of architecture or decorations, but merely in terms of grave goods. Of course, a picture of the tomb itself would also make that clear.
- simonh 5y agoIt was found in the 1920 so there may not be any photos, or good ones of the original site.
- Tagbert 5y agoPhotography was well developed by 1920. I have a number of very good photos of family members from that period of time.
- simonh 5y agoPhotography was yes, of course, but it's use in archaeology was pretty basic, usually just recording artefacts. It was nothing like as advanced as crime scene photography, which was very well developed and regularised by that time. The context within which finds were discovered just wasn't as valued back then. All I'm saying is that the chances that such photos exist, while not zero, is fairly low.
- marklubi 5y ago> "The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found", and yet not a single picture or illustration of said tomb. That's because it's clickbait