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thousands of years of continuous looting. Imagine destroying magical history to sell some cloth.
by mjfl 4y ago
thousands of years of continuous looting. Imagine destroying magical history to sell some cloth.
- pencilguin 4y agoAn unplanned gift to future generations.
- jterrys 4y agoIt still happens (though highly illegal if caught, but bribes get you far). Which is why I found the argument the other day about returning artifacts to Egypt in a different HN thread kind of bonkers. Most Western explorers didn't so much loot important artifacts from the Egyptians as merely find them much in the same way the Egyptians did: digging through rubbles of ancient sites used by the locals as building materials or discarded trash piles.