History Memes

the people whose lives you made miserable later looted some of the artefacts you didn’t steal?

Im not sure if its on purpose but youve changed the timeline here, the artefacts were looted before not after europeans showed up.

the harder their lives are(like being colonized for example) the more they do it.

The point Im trying to highlight is that the vast majority of artefacts were looted/lost before anyone got colonised.

Well we know for a fact there still was a lot left, so you need to explain then how the artefacts the Europeans stole were not looted before for many many years.

Im no historian so take this with a grain of salt. The easy-to-find valuables were looted by random individuals over the course of history and sold off. The ones ruling Egypt at the time couldnt or wouldnt protect these sites. Then Europeans showed up with equipment and a scientific method, understanding the need to finding and preserve the past. The easy-to-find stuff was naturally already gone so they had to start excavating and searching the low odds regions.

The only reason why Tutankhamun is so famous today, he was a pretty unimportant pharao, is because his tomb was found by a modern archeologist and his relics ware preserved. The more famous pharaonic tombs were looted long before any Europeans showed up and therefor lost to history