This video is really cool. It’s a curator talking about what is on the stone and why. They were supposed to be put in every temple in Egypt and were done so for many years, which is why so many have been discovered since the original famous one.

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    Europeans pretty notoriously also destroyed a TON of things, especially in the antiquarian days. Schliemann with “troy” would be one of these but also like all of the native American things that weren’t precious metals. So many Maya codices just torched. So many things just plowed under and away.

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      The codices weren’t destroyed by antiquarians, they were destroyed by Catholic priests and their cronies who thought they were sinful long before the antiquarian era.

      But what Schliemann did to Troy (and to other digs he supervised) was criminal. What happened with Pompeii, similarly criminal.