As I was reading about the Valley of the Kings again, I wonder why that was actually legal.

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    Yeah, there’s a weird implied statute of limitations type of thing with remains. Like thousands of years ago, we can learn so much and uncover history by looking at remains. But you don’t learn much and it’s weird and presumably illegal to dig up recent remains.

    I dunno what that time limit is, but to me at least it feels like it exists and intuitively makes enough sense

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      4 hours ago

      i think you’ve hit the nail on the head regarding why robbing recent graves is unethical; that is, it’s denying valuable data to the archeologists of 3024 CE.