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The value of exploring tombs for the purpose of illuminating ancient cultures is inestimable. It seems humans have always been happy desecrating burial sites if not for treasure then to prove dominance over another tribe or nation. Of course some exploitation is beyond permissible. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries there was an artist's pigment called Mummy Brown. It was sold for many decades, a rich, transparent b…
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In Paris they use the corpse of their heroes like Voltaire and Napoleon to flease tourists of their Euros Using a tomb to expand our knowledge of the ancient world seems like small potatoes in comparison. Overton window is already far off
Besides, only ashes remain of Napoleon and even the bodies that are there are entombed. They are necropoles, not shows. There isn’t much to see there.
The value of exploring tombs for the purpose of illuminating ancient cultures is inestimable. It seems humans have always been happy desecrating burial sites if not for treasure then to prove dominance over another tribe or nation. Of course some exploitation is beyond permissible. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries there was an artist's pigment called Mummy Brown. It was sold for many decades, a rich, transparent b…
The other reason there are few mummies left is that we ate them.
Here's one source[0], there are others.
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Nothing remains here - only walls. Most of these tombs have already, since ancient times, been looted and desecrated and most things inside including any human remains have long since been removed. It looks like this tomb is also in this category as all that remains of note are on the walls which cannot be easily removed. I seem to recall a story that even at the time when they were building pyramids in ancient Egypt…
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The fate of all things is to become dust.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Paris they use the corpse of their heroes like Voltaire and Napoleon to flease tourists of their Euros Using a tomb to expand our knowledge of the ancient world seems like small potatoes in comparison. Overton window is already far off
Fleece. But a good play--AI wouldn't make this mistake.
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Unless you believe as they did, I don't see a problem with opening up a tomb.
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I was just thinking this, do we regularly breaking into tombs in the rest of the world? I guess some of the cathedrals themselves are tombs and are big tourist attractions.
I just got back from a triple to Naples where there's a church that had a secret skull collecting cult under it for decades, it's a tourist attraction now. Yes it is still full of peoples skulls.
So yes, it seems like there is a statute of limitations on our obedience to the dead.
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The value of exploring tombs for the purpose of illuminating ancient cultures is inestimable. It seems humans have always been happy desecrating burial sites if not for treasure then to prove dominance over another tribe or nation. Of course some exploitation is beyond permissible. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries there was an artist's pigment called Mummy Brown. It was sold for many decades, a rich, transparent b…
The other reason there are few mummies left is that we ate them.