Time to flood this community with educational memes! We have to meet the people where they are, and memes are the true art form of the people.
Time to flood this community with educational memes! We have to meet the people where they are, and memes are the true art form of the people.
Old stories of archaeological digs can be depressing as fuck. There's a ton of medieval era middle eastern artifacts and architecture just lost because some 19th century British mustache wanted to get to the ancient Egyptian and Greek stuff underneath.
The reason why we have so few mummies from Egypt is because 17th century European nobles used to eat them as medicine.
This would be so cool in some Dark Souls kinda shit, but it's very sad in real life.
This reads like an Onion article
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Mexico has a good policy. They know that there are hundred of undiscovered pyramids and Mayan structures underground in the Yucatan. But once they are uncovered, they cost money to maintain and protect. Stuff might have to go into museums, or else it will be looted. There can be weather damage. There isn't enough tourism to justify opening more sites for visitors. So the policy is archeological digs are only allowed if they are very likely to increase either tourism revenue, or help better understand the history of the Mayans and the mystery of their collapse. I think thats pretty cool.
Yeah, most of what happens now is focused on village life and infrastructure, which is pretty awesome. The mayans had well maintained roads.
Cue chuds repeating "Mayan no wheels" as they rock back and forth in fetal position.