…Given the presence of Stonehenge, what kept the ancient peoples of Great Britain from making their own pyramids anyway? I’m guessing it’s to do with different sociocultural arrangements, but was there any absence of resources that may have also contributed?
I’m aware of the trend, which is why I was asking about Great Britain in particular and whether they had also done so. Courtesy of this reply I was made aware that there are at least some there, albeit those highlighted were neither as old nor so large.
I have a British friend who legitimately smuggled a few pieces of the pyramids out of Egypt for her friends (they neeeeeeded souvenirs) and I’m pretty sure I’ve been left one of her remaining pieces in her will. I’m not sure if I should take it back to Egypt and find a spot for it or just shrug and be all “my pyramid now”
IANAL but I’m 90% sure that’s highly illegal even in the UK nowadays, so I at the very least wouldn’t accept the piece lest I get nailed for the crime.
Assuming it’s an actual real piece of the pyramid, like they chipped it off the real structure or something. If they bought it from, say, a street vendor in Egypt then it’s most likely fake in which case there would be no problems.
The sheer amount of mummies they have on display at the British Museum genuinely made me uncomfortable. Walking through those exhibits, the main thought in my head was just “hey, you guys think you should put some of these back?”
The joke is that the British have an incredibly problematic history literally centuries-old of taking things from other cultures and going “well, it’s ours the world’s now.“ Many of these communities have been asking them literally for decades to return them, but they simply won’t even to this day.
There was a time where they could maybe make the claim “this is the best way to preserve them,“ but for the vast majority of cases that time has long since passed and it was flimsy to begin with.
It's mostly due to early "archeologists" being almost entirely trust fund babies born into the aristocracy and to whom it was a contest to make the craziest claims possible.
See the OG trench at Troy that went completely past the end of the Bronze Age and dumped all of the important artifacts into a refuse pile that is apparently still being sifted through today.
Also see early "paleontologists" who seemed to use Dino bones in an attempt to make monsters scary enough to make kids cry.
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