• rigatti
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    3 years ago

    Check out all of the science in this meme.

  • Dr. Coomer
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    Possibly fun fact(?): We would have far mor mummies in museums if it weren’t for the fact that people ate them. I’m not joking, look it up.

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    3 years ago

    in his defense, he goes by “Bad Jokes by Jeff”

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    I have a British friend who legitimately smuggled a few pieces of the pyramids out of Egypt for her friends (they neeeeeeded souvenirs) and I’m pretty sure I’ve been left one of her remaining pieces in her will. I’m not sure if I should take it back to Egypt and find a spot for it or just shrug and be all “my pyramid now”

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      IANAL but I’m 90% sure that’s highly illegal even in the UK nowadays, so I at the very least wouldn’t accept the piece lest I get nailed for the crime.

      Assuming it’s an actual real piece of the pyramid, like they chipped it off the real structure or something. If they bought it from, say, a street vendor in Egypt then it’s most likely fake in which case there would be no problems.

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    …Given the presence of Stonehenge, what kept the ancient peoples of Great Britain from making their own pyramids anyway? I’m guessing it’s to do with different sociocultural arrangements, but was there any absence of resources that may have also contributed?

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      Lots of people made pyramids. There are indigenous pyramids in New England.

      Turns out if you want to stack bricks high, the easiest way to do it is to make triangles.

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        I’m aware of the trend, which is why I was asking about Great Britain in particular and whether they had also done so. Courtesy of this reply I was made aware that there are at least some there, albeit those highlighted were neither as old nor so large.

        Still fun to know about though!

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    It also counts as a joke about how prone the British Museum is to stealing shit.

  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comdeleted by creator
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    Perhaps someday an earth cultural artifact will be absconded with to the Martian colonies or the lightly cloudy cloud city of Somewhataerosolopolis.

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    I mean, people did steal the fancy bricks that were on the outside of the pyramids, so it’s not a stretch to imagine they’d want to steal the rest