• @lemmingnosis
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    341 month ago

    Didn’t all kinds of antiquities get destroyed in Iraq? Totally irreplaceable stuff.

    As you alluded, probably common in many places. How sad.

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
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      231 month ago

      Most recently I remember it happening really really badly within Syria. Very intentional destruction. But yes, it happens all the time–Iraq included. With the technology we have now, we can preserve a lot of it (digitally at least).

      I hate how it’s so damn hard to find these things and yet so easy to destroy it.

    • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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      121 month ago

      A lot was destroyed but a lot of it was looted and and sold to sleazy collectors. Remember when the guy who owns Hobby Lobby got caught buying looted artifacts?

      Still horrible, obviously, but at least there’s some hope looted items will be recovered.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 month ago

        I wonder how many artifacts could be recovered if we could search all the rich people mansions…

    • JJROKCZ
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      91 month ago

      Yea ISIS and other extremist groups like to destroy evidence of their ancestor’s greatness for some reason.

      Lesser sons of lesser sons

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Oh man.

      It’s only recently that the idea of “archaeology” has been a thing. Before then there were only “antiquarians” which were just looters.

      Often they had royal backers. There’s a podcast series called “stuff the British stole”

      There’s pretty well documented instances in the 1800s in Egypt, and pompeii.

      Honestly the amount of amazing stuff that has just been “collected” is just eye watering.

      • @lemmingnosis
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        130 days ago

        That puts some of my own knowledge into perspective :)