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[–] rigatti 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Check out all of the science in this meme.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not even right, since the French were the ones that stole most of the artifacts out of Egypt. Then the English stole them from the French.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BleatingZombie 17 points 1 year ago

THERE'S the science (math)! We found it everybody! It's over here

[–] AnUnusualRelic 6 points 1 year ago

That's because we brought too many scientists to Egypt instead of soldiers like the Brits did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay, is there a /c/historymemes?

[–] Deuces 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perhaps it's time to make one here?

[–] RIP_Cheems 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Possibly fun fact(?): We would have far mor mummies in museums if it weren't for the fact that people ate them. I'm not joking, look it up.

[–] FooBarrington 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or used them to make paint...

[–] dexa_scantron 7 points 1 year ago

Or unwrapped them at parties to see what was inside.

[–] RIP_Cheems 5 points 1 year ago

That too. I forgot about that one.

[–] expatriado 12 points 1 year ago

in his defense, he goes by "Bad Jokes by Jeff"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a British friend who legitimately smuggled a few pieces of the pyramids out of Egypt for her friends (they neeeeeeded souvenirs) and I'm pretty sure I've been left one of her remaining pieces in her will. I'm not sure if I should take it back to Egypt and find a spot for it or just shrug and be all "my pyramid now"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IANAL but I'm 90% sure that's highly illegal even in the UK nowadays, so I at the very least wouldn't accept the piece lest I get nailed for the crime.

Assuming it's an actual real piece of the pyramid, like they chipped it off the real structure or something. If they bought it from, say, a street vendor in Egypt then it's most likely fake in which case there would be no problems.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...Given the presence of Stonehenge, what kept the ancient peoples of Great Britain from making their own pyramids anyway? I'm guessing it's to do with different sociocultural arrangements, but was there any absence of resources that may have also contributed?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots of people made pyramids. There are indigenous pyramids in New England.

Turns out if you want to stack bricks high, the easiest way to do it is to make triangles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm aware of the trend, which is why I was asking about Great Britain in particular and whether they had also done so. Courtesy of this reply I was made aware that there are at least some there, albeit those highlighted were neither as old nor so large.

Still fun to know about though!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The French had to hire a Japanese guy to build them one at the louvre.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I could go for a pyramid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It also counts as a joke about how prone the British Museum is to stealing shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perhaps someday an earth cultural artifact will be absconded with to the Martian colonies or the lightly cloudy cloud city of Somewhataerosolopolis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Pfft... Carmen Sandiego could do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I mean, people did steal the fancy bricks that were on the outside of the pyramids, so it’s not a stretch to imagine they’d want to steal the rest