• Wanderer
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    A lot of the old shit was just left in a field to rot. Someone came along and said see all this shit over here anyone want it? No one did.

    Either it got left to rot and now wouldn’t exist at all or someone saw value it in bought it off someone and put it in a museum for people to enjoy.

    Now in the future it has monetary value people suddenly want it.

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      A lot of the old shit was just left in a field to rot. Someone came along and said see all this shit over here anyone want it? No one did.

      We’re going to need some legitimate citations to back your claim about “a lot of the old shit” being left in fields that people passed by and didn’t take for themselves.

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        Mummies. They were all over Egypt, just lying around in the sand. The Brits came by and saw they were everwhere, asked why nobody took care of them, received some shrugs in response, took a couple, ground them up into dust and snorted that shit, for health purposes. It’s well documented, somewhere on the internet.

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            Nope. The graves were repurposed by the locals into houses for the living brick by brick, so the mummies were left out in the cold.

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      Left in a field to rot? You say this why? You assume someone graciously assigned value to trash and that’s why museums are full? Why would you think that?

      That’s nothing like what actually happened though. But in case I’m wrong please tell us all how the royal arts of India, various different African countries, statues of marble and plates of gold were magically removed from their country of origin and ended up Britain.

      Because you claim they were just rotting in a field? Do you know how far off the mark that is?