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History Ruins
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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.
Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world
Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world
Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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Fuck Heinrich Schliemann
Petition to dynamite is grave and turn it into a sewage pit
This is very much a case where the budding since of archeology learned a lot from someone very famously doing exactly the wrong thing.
I mean I do agree with your general discontent with his practices, however I think you're a bit too mad at him, all things considered.
There's many more people to be a mad at. Schliemann himself is already academically berated and scorned. I do appreciate the ironic nature of defacing his last resting place, however I would agree with another poster that cases can be made for many who would be more deserving.