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Re:Archaeologists hail ‘dream discovery’ as sarcophagus is u... by ncmncm on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:32PM (#33181077)
As I said, we will need to wait for a generation of Egyptologists not so eager to attribute everything to whoever was last to scratch his name onto each thing.
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Re:Archaeologists hail ‘dream discovery’ as sarcophagus is u... by wl on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:49PM (#33181306)
The technical term for someone carving their name on something someone else had built is "usurpation" and it's hardly an obscure topic in Egyptology. It is definitely something people think of when dating objects and monuments.

https://escholarship.org/content/qt5gj996k5/qt5gj996k5.pdf

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Re:Archaeologists hail ‘dream discovery’ as sarcophagus is u... by ncmncm on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:07AM (#33192068)
Think of, sure. But act on? By the evidence, incentives run the other way.
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