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toad67
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I've been watching a documentary on TV about a group of archaeologists that are finding tombs in Egypt. While I find it interesting, and the items that they discover very amazing, I'm kind of torn between finding out the history of the people and their treasures, but leaving the dead to rest undisturbed. What say you?
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Yes. Don
Leave it be. But they will not, ever.
It attracts tourism to Egypt so most Egyptians don't really mind at all. $$$$$$$$
I once asked myself this same question. After I'm gone for 2 or 3 thousand years, I could care less if I'm dug up and exploited. Going to be cremated anyway!
I want to know what happened in the past and how to avoid the pitfalls of a failed culture and civilization for ourselves.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
I doubt the dead folks will care much.
This was told to me once about history and it changed my view on how I look at history. You can’t know where you’re going unless you know where you have been. It’s not that they are really disturbing the dead by robbing their graves now a days, their graves were looted long ago. The same as we exhume someone’s body today in order to solve a question. We are trying to solve mysteries of the past through the, in this case hieroglyphic record they left.
One has to think. If they didn’t want someone to know about their life and culture at a later date, why were these records written on the walls of their burial sight. After all the Gods that they worshiped at that time wouldn’t have needed a written record on who they were or their life.
It will always happen just like the permafrost or bog body's
Curiosity and science will win out
I have seen old photos from Egypt and the area from maybe a hundred yrs ago street vendors with mummy's stacked up for sale and they use to use ormaystill do ground up mummy as a medical treatment with magical powers
But even such sites as burial mounds ,mass graves from wars or disease
Remains being found in old caves
I have mixed emotions about it but
It's human nature to be curious
If some sites weren't declared off limits like sunken ships and subs but even then they get looted as the pirmids did thousands of years ago
A lot to take in I do not see it ever coming to a end
Even amature cript yourubers exploring grave yards and damaged mosoleams are popular subjects
Even the uncrupt body's put on display by many religions
I can't really give a solid answer
So much can be learned but then how long / old before a dead person becoms interesting or just another dead body
I once dug up a Native American lower jaw bone while plowing, tobacco pipes, various types of arrow heads, pottery were numerous in the area so it didn't take a lot to figure out what was happening. I reset the jawbone as best as I could in it's area , covered it back up then said a "please forgive me" prayer. The field since has been planted in pine trees and hopefully that's it for that area for a while. I vote No, leave the dead to rest in peace...forever.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
I don't know about any of that, might be above my pay grade.
When I'm buried I want my tombstone to read "Here lies a handsome man". They'll dig me up just out of curiosity!
I Think that a man's or woman's grave, should be left alone, regardless of what we think we should know about them. That is why we have books, info passed down through generations and so on.
If we bury every person that dies and never allow anyone to disturb that spot the planet will be a small, SMALL place in no time. Nobody that knew these people are around, so its not like you are going to hurt their family's feelings.
I believe that a dead body is an empty vessel, it only matters to the survivors. After a long time who's really hurt.
One of my majors was anthropology. Digging is what physical anthropologists do for a living. I favor keeping them employed and off the welfare roles.
Unfortunately......and perhaps sadly......
What we've all known/learned over the decades........is that after ALL is said and done......MONEY talks, and bull excrement walks. Always has......and always WILL.
It's just a matter of how MUCH $$$$$$$$$'s is involved.
Just ask the members of the PGA.😉........or king James about his shoe/etc contracts.😖
My lousy 2 cents.......
Seriously, I have found it fascinating to gaze upon empty eye sockets that may have once looked upon the faces of Moses, King David, King Solomon, and many other historic Biblical figures.
I am pleased to say I have never seen bull excrement walking. I would like to keep it that way.
I'm going to avoid the question by never dying.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I dig it.
I am going to ask my mummy and see what she thinks.
These people have been robbing these graves for 1000’s of years. If done by an archaeologist, at least the history will be saved.
Brad Steele
You've never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark???
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
To paraphrase the Beatles, Grasshopper.