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> Yep. They also did partial reconstuction work of the great wall in modern times and passed it off as ancient. Do you have a source for "and passed it off as

• nuc1e0n 2y ago
  Not off the top of my head, but a lot of the misleading is done through omission, for which there is no source obviously. The stretch near Beijing gets a lot of tourists and by default they're led to believe they're walking on an ancient wonder. I think it's not made clear enough any of it was rebuilt in modern times, let alone which bits were. But also many historical buildings have been rebuilt multiple times over a long period of history. With Sensoji, which pieces of wood represent the temple? It's a sort of ship of Theseus situation in any case. Modern history is still history, and also forms part of the story to be told.