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The Egyptlogists might have some additional context and knowledge that some rando on Twitter might now.
sure, but experts have been making bad assumptions before.
Like archaeologists up until relatively recently have been calling viking graves with swords in male, without really looking at the actual skeleton.
that said, yeah, I still definitely trust the experts more
Shouldn't have just assumed but in that case it was the correct assumption vast majority of the time. Still bad to assume.
it kinda wasn't
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-reaffirm-famed-ancient-viking-warrior-was-biologically-female-180971541/
And out of Viking graves with swords, how many of them have turned out to be women?