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Yeah they have no interest in fast revealing everything at once. Egypt's GDP largely depends on these Antiquities so you want to mine them as slow as possible.
by pandemic_region 15d ago
Yeah they have no interest in fast revealing everything at once. Egypt's GDP largely depends on these Antiquities so you want to mine them as slow as possible.
- itopaloglu83 15d agoDo you blame them for trying to protect and control things? It might be a little extreme, but we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun.
- mcphage 15d ago> we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun And eat them, which... that's just like, really fucking weird.
- OoooooooO 15d agoDidn't they also crushed parts of them and snorted the powder at parties for fun?
- krapp 15d agoAnd they made them into paint called "mummy brown." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
- defrost 15d agoBoth uses were immortalised in music by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the mid(?) 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs
- BurningFrog 15d agoControlling physical artefacts is fine. Stopping any science results that may be contrary to the Egyptian government's official view of history is awful!