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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.
Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.
The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...
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"For example, she said Egyptian mummified persons were excavated and brought back to Britain, for racist pseudoscientific research."
As opposed to the utterly respectful local descendants of those times, who, if they got there first, unwrapped the mummies, took any precious metals for resale (often melting it down first), and discarded the rest on the ground - playthings for dogs and children. Oh, or used as fertilizer, of course.
Traveller's journals of the Nineteenth century seem to all have at least one account of the traveller's horror of unearthed, looted and broken mummies left scattered on the ground.
As for European and Local looters, in Pharonic times up to 2011, can I recommend "A Short History of Tomb-Raiding" by Maria Golia?
So, perhaps "We should do better" today, but don't pretend back in the "Golden Age" of Egyptology that the locals in Egypt were not as bad as the Europeans in their disrespect.