Do you blame them for trying to protect and control things? It might be a little extreme, but we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun.
Do you blame them for trying to protect and control things? It might be a little extreme, but we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun.
Controlling physical artefacts is fine.
Stopping any science results that may be contrary to the Egyptian government's official view of history is awful!
> we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun
And eat them, which... that's just like, really fucking weird.
Didn't they also crushed parts of them and snorted the powder at parties for fun?
And they made them into paint called "mummy brown." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
Both uses were immortalised in music by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the mid(?) 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs