It's a kind of paradox: a costly mark of respect that actually dooms your remains to near-certain destruction within a span of centuries. They would have been better off with artworks made of painted clay...
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If you want something to last for a long time, don't make it out of gold. Burying kings with treasure dramatically shortened the lifespan of their tombs, making it a quasi-certainty that they would get desecrated and pillaged as soon as the site could no longer be guarded
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Interestingly, there’s an exhibit at the Met in NYC which features figurines of offerings instead of the real thing for an Egyptian tomb. The palace went economical on offerings and it now lasts to this day!
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…just build a pyramid.
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Just working on the 1000-year Keras roadmap doc.
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Guess that's the fate of mankind and his gold and glory.
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The Varna necropolis’ gold went undisturbed for 6,500 years.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/varna-bulgaria-gold-graves-social-hierarchy-prehistoric-archaelogy-smithsonian-journeys-travel-quarterly-180958733/ …
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