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> I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery People have paid top dollar for archeological artifacts for centuries. Humanity lo
by mschuster91 7d ago
> I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery
People have paid top dollar for archeological artifacts for centuries. Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers, illegal artifact hunting and unreported thefts of stuff getting exposed after stuff like forest fires.
- fn-mote 7d ago> Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers […] Don’t forget the major scale destruction wrought by wars (religious and otherwise) - eg in the Middle East. You might also want to count cultural theft. (Where are the gates of Babylon now??)