The sheer amount of mummies they have on display at the British Museum genuinely made me uncomfortable. Walking through those exhibits, the main thought in my head was just "hey, you guys think you should put some of these back?"
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"
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.
...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?
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.
Check out all of the science in this meme.
It's not even right, since the French were the ones that stole most of the artifacts out of Egypt. Then the English stole them from the French.
Transitive property
THERE'S the science (math)! We found it everybody! It's over here
That's because we brought too many scientists to Egypt instead of soldiers like the Brits did.
Okay, is there a /c/historymemes?
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Perhaps it's time to make one here?
They took the Stargate!
That's Cheyenne Mountain
Negative, that's just a NORAD deep space radar telemetry site. Nothing to see here.
Someone's been watching too much Wormhole X-Treme.
Is there such a thing? Physics tells us: no.
The sheer amount of mummies they have on display at the British Museum genuinely made me uncomfortable. Walking through those exhibits, the main thought in my head was just "hey, you guys think you should put some of these back?"
Fun fact, that's what's left after the Victorian fad of eating mummies. Wiki link
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.
Or used them to make paint...
Or unwrapped them at parties to see what was inside.
That too. I forgot about that one.
in his defense, he goes by "Bad Jokes by Jeff"
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"
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.
...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?
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.
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!
The French had to hire a Japanese guy to build them one at the louvre.
It also counts as a joke about how prone the British Museum is to stealing shit.
Perhaps someday an earth cultural artifact will be absconded with to the Martian colonies or the lightly cloudy cloud city of Somewhataerosolopolis.
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
Pfft... Carmen Sandiego could do it.