Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa

Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa by whatshisface on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:33AM (#32413697)

I can't think of a single field of study that wasn't established by Europeans seeking status, except possibly for mathematics which was established by Babylonians seeking grains.

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Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa by RC_ITR on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:57PM (#32419968)

Sure but physics wasn’t “this thing in your country is cool, I’m taking it home with me”

There is a clear difference there.

Imagine if the British Crown Jewels were in a museum in Iran right now!

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Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa by whatshisface on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:07PM (#32420792)

If physics had somehow involved taking stuff from India they would have done it, which shows that the problem was with the attitude of the colonial era conquerors to the countries they took over rather than with archeology. In fact, a lot of the "they took the crown jewels" stuff has nothing to do with archeology at all.

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Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa by XorNot on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:04PM (#32414258)

Recognising that history is important to not repeating it.

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Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa by whatshisface on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:06PM (#32414294)

A whole lot of status-seeking goes on in science today.

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