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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:23AM (#15184381)
Or we could fund adventurer archeologists like Indiana Jones to protect the artifacts by stealing them. Either way, we've probably stepped off into the realm of unworkable fiction.
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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by nradov on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @02:52PM (#15186154)
Indiana Jones aside, people actually used to do that. Check out the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. German archeologists excavated and disassembled large artifacts. They kind of "stole" the artifacts, although it wasn't technically illegal at the time.

http://www.egyptian-museum-berlin.com/c01.php

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