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Ancient Egypt had archeological museums showing dug up artifacts of even more ancient Egypt.
by adastra22 5mo ago
Ancient Egypt had archeological museums showing dug up artifacts of even more ancient Egypt.
- Melatonic 5mo agoIsn't that just like our normal museums now ?
- fecal_henge 5mo agoYes but much further in the future when someone else digs them up.
- tclancy 5mo agoNo, the artifacts stayed where they were found. Different concept.
- adastra22 5mo agoNot the one I'm referring to. Which I just looked up and got the region wrong -- it was in Mesopotamia. It was an actual museum showing ancient artifacts in a building, 2,500 years ago. Some of the things in that museum were an additional 1,500 years old at the time they were on display. It's a funny story because the modern archeologists who dug it up were very confused by finding objects from different regions and separated by hundreds or thousands of years, all in the same layer.
- weirdmantis69 5mo agoYou must have been cheering when they blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan because at least white people didn't have them.
- tclancy 5mo agoWe had a party and everything. If you meet the Buddha on the road ...
- adolph 5mo agoAlso dinosaur bones. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. . . . Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. . . . https://classics.stanford.edu/publications/first-fossil-hunters-dinosaurs-mammoths-and-myth-greek-and-roman-times https://classics.stanford.edu/publications/first-fossil-hunt...