That's an interesting point. While I agree it's kinda shitty the UK nicked everyone's cool stuff and shoved it in 1 building. I'm willing to bet if we hadn't the number of pieces that would be lost to time would not be zero

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is just weird revisionist history. They moved in stole shit, colonized and murdered. The after the fact excuse of "we took it to preserve it" doesn't play mostly because their colonizer bullshit is largely the reason areas they stole shit from are destabilized.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not revising anything its a shitty thing to do and it should all be returned. It was just a thought with a beer given how volatile some of the areas where the stuff comes and yes I know most of them ended up volatile because of colonialism.

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah I'm totally sure the Brits didn't break a single thing shipping artifacts to their big fancy museum. Let's ignore all the mummies Europeans ground up into powder and ingested as "medicine". Savagely eating dead humans with the same mouths that say brown people are too savage to take care of their own artifacts.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 19 points 1 month ago

To be fair, they probably weren't able to take care of their own artifacts very well ... after having been invaded by the British.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

They also turned them into oil paint. Mummy/egyptian brown was a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

I dont know why people do shit like this. Find some rare, finite resource of information and do just about everything with them except study them respectfully. Eat them, grind them into paint, rich people having "unwrapping parties."

Humans are so deeply disappointing.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oddly enough they didn't teach that part of history when I was at school. Got anything I could learn up on it

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also used to make Mummy Brown Paint (wikipedia link)

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Fucking hell

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/ is fun

[–] Maeve@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Jumping Jimminy! One of my college English lit courses spent 4 full weeks on Donne. It was all his religious poems, certainly not this.