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“We’d rather it rotted away to dust versus you digging it up.” Good grief.
by wileydragonfly 2y ago
“We’d rather it rotted away to dust versus you digging it up.”
Good grief.
- blahedo 2y agoThey've survived since the bronze age. They're not rotting away to dust any time soon.
- mcmoor 2y agoWhat I thought when the British claimed they can stole things because they preserved it better. This thing have preserved in this land for centuries, and who's to say that British Museum won't get nuked in the next 100 years?
- iamacyborg 2y agoThat’s not a particularly strong argument considering the state of some of the items in the British Museum.
- fph 2y agoI think the point is "We'd rather you left them where they were after you found them and notified a museum, so that they could be dug out with all due care by professional archeologists".