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> It seems to me that we need to rethink our strategies completely if we are to find ways of preserving all such objects over a truly long term. To what end? A
by chmod775 4y ago
> It seems to me that we need to rethink our strategies completely if we are to find ways of preserving all such objects over a truly long term.
To what end? At this point if those glass artifacts aren't used as museum pieces, they're not serving any purpose at all anymore and we might as well throw them away.
- hilbert42 4y agoYou and I would likely throw those glass shards away but I doubt any archeologist would. My concern is about how we stop such 'vandalism' in the first instance (especially so culturally significant objects such as those found by Howard Carter). We might do so initially, say for several hundred years, with current strategies with minimal loss but I think over several millennia our systems would fall apart. (At present, we consider those objects to be of great importance, in two millennia values might be entirely different.)
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