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Who are the Egyptians? The Arabs got there in 700AD, long after the Rosetta Stone had been engraved. Remnants of the Copts perhaps? Maybe the Greeks want a piec
by gherkinnn 4y ago
Who are the Egyptians? The Arabs got there in 700AD, long after the Rosetta Stone had been engraved. Remnants of the Copts perhaps? Maybe the Greeks want a piece of it too. And it was Napoleon who found it, so surely Corsica has a claim as well.
You have to tie yourself in to all sorts of knots to untangle this Ship of Theseus.
And while where at it, all filth of Roman, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman descent better fuck out of GB. It belongs to the Celts and I want my Gaelic back.
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- KoftaBob 4y agoAs somewhat of an aside from the debate on giving back artifacts, I have a fun fact: The Coptic Christians of Egypt and the Muslims of Egypt are largely the same ethnic/genetic group. Modern day Muslim Egyptians are descendants of Coptic Egyptians who converted to Islam at some point after the Arabs conquered Egypt. One of the (many) interesting things about Egypt is that despite being conquered by several foreign empires, their genetic/ethnic makeup has stayed largely consistent, with only minor intermixing from those foreign groups.
- krapp 4y agoSo "Egyptians" don't even really exist, but "the British" absolutely, unequivocally, 100% do, and the latter claim to the Rosetta stone is ironclad and irrefutable, whereas the former is basically fantasy. Shit like this is the reason half the world danced when the Queen died, you know.