• Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    imagining a US troop having an oracle bone script tortoise shell thrown at his head like a frisbee and getting decapitated

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    PLA operatives using ancient Chinese bone script to encode communiques

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    British Millionare Rag The Economist has less than zero right to talk shit about anybody else using archaeology as a weapon. lenin-tea

    Give those fucking "museum exhibits" back.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    When you put them in water they swell up really big and become giant, all the better to crush the westerners underfoot

      • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Not super common, but it's happened more than zero times that white people have claimed that a bunch of old artifacts were a product of ancient white groups.

        • engelsaxons [comrade/them]
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          1 month ago

          Ah, thank you for the explanation comrade! Wow, that's a weird place for white supremacy to show up but I probably shouldn't be surprised at this point.

  • healthkick
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    1 month ago

    China cynically using evidence

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    1 month ago

    link: https://archive.is/iL4jv

    it's about archaeology in Xinjiang and how it's supposedly used to make a historical Chinese claim to the Ughyur region.

    • Crucible [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      So just accusing China of doing what Israel has done for 80 years, a classic move

  • iridaniotter [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    Yup, Qin Shi Huang actually developed golem technology over a millennium before Judah Loew ben Bezalel figured it out. power-genius