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[–] [email protected] -4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

That's an interesting point. While I agree it's kinda shitty the UK nicked everyone's cool stuff and shoved it in 1 building. I'm willing to bet if we hadn't the number of pieces that would be lost to time would not be zero

[–] [email protected] 41 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is just weird revisionist history. They moved in stole shit, colonized and murdered. The after the fact excuse of "we took it to preserve it" doesn't play mostly because their colonizer bullshit is largely the reason areas they stole shit from are destabilized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I'm not revising anything its a shitty thing to do and it should all be returned. It was just a thought with a beer given how volatile some of the areas where the stuff comes and yes I know most of them ended up volatile because of colonialism.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah I'm totally sure the Brits didn't break a single thing shipping artifacts to their big fancy museum. Let's ignore all the mummies Europeans ground up into powder and ingested as "medicine". Savagely eating dead humans with the same mouths that say brown people are too savage to take care of their own artifacts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

They also turned them into oil paint. Mummy/egyptian brown was a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

I dont know why people do shit like this. Find some rare, finite resource of information and do just about everything with them except study them respectfully. Eat them, grind them into paint, rich people having "unwrapping parties."

Humans are so deeply disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago

To be fair, they probably weren't able to take care of their own artifacts very well ... after having been invaded by the British.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Oddly enough they didn't teach that part of history when I was at school. Got anything I could learn up on it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Also used to make Mummy Brown Paint (wikipedia link)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Fucking hell