Shame that the limestone exterior was largely looted. https://twitter.com/ArtifactsHub_/status/1417791065285791745 …
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One downside of restoring the Great Pyramid to its original form is that it would be too slick to climb it. Pictured: Franz Joseph, at age 39 (in Egypt for the opening of the Suez Canal) climbing the Great Pyramid in 1869:pic.twitter.com/6u32iPmrpd
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I've pondered that. For example, if you were to restore Rome... what year?
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Restore ones side to show the original look.
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No, no it’s not.
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All you need to do to understand why it will never be rebuilt is to visit Cairo. Its a nice Cosmopolitan city, uts biggest and most populated city in all of Africa but, well, its like what would happen if Manhattan had a baby with Tijuana.
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Look no further than US Parks Service "restoring" buildings in Kennecott, Alaska. New paint, windows, roofs. The place looks like Disneyland.pic.twitter.com/iVxkpVMhvn
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Ship of Theseus question, if you replace a boat plank by plank is it still the same boat? I ask this all the time because Israel is doing this with artifacts that are destroyed by looters, reassembling them and augmenting, But I wonder if it holds the same significance
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Ancient Greek statues used to be painted, but it was the weathered, paint-stripped marble versions that inspired Roman classical art.
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