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Re:Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years unearthed in Saqqara by sho_hn on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:00PM (#24536902)
Good question. I read a few books on excavations and discoveries in Egypt over the modern centuries recently, and the quantity and degree of destruction from sheer careless to lack of method is quite staggering. I walked away with the impression that we lost more artifacts than we retained.

Archeology eventually invented itself and practitioners got more careful as time went on, but then seeing photos embedded into the article of opening coffins on site ...

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Re:Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years unearthed in Saqqara by thaumasiotes on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:29PM (#24539501)
> Archeology eventually invented itself

Perhaps. It didn't take long.

A king of Babylon in the 6th century BC was already sponsoring archaeological research into his legendary predecessor Sargon the Great.

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