Comment by throwawaysleep
1 year ago
This is the same for a lot of supposed “theft” by museums. Lots of “priceless” objects now were at the time junk, so they were thrown away.
1 year ago
This is the same for a lot of supposed “theft” by museums. Lots of “priceless” objects now were at the time junk, so they were thrown away.
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Alternate theory, both are true.
Western societies took advantage of multiple other societies to plunder their treasures. Those same societies didn't have the infrastructure and/or care to preserve these things themselves.
Sometimes two things can be true.
If they do not care about them, they are not "treasures" by the standards of those cultures but rather "waste."
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