Why were most archaeologists British?

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>>79241278
give them back anglo subhumans

>>79241278
Were they? Quite a few famous archaeologists were French, actually.

because jesus was british

>>79241278
You should ask a smarter board like /his/

We were just bored desu

>>79241395
have you ever been on /his/

>>79241383
Jesus is Greek you anglo subhuman

>>79241429
I've seen a lot of people post questions on this board but they get shitty answers so they repost them on /his/.

>>79241278
they had a lot of bored aristocrats with too much money on their hands

>>79241455
/his/ is like another /b/ desu

>>79241443
Was Allah German?

Oh shit, never mind, it's just that Germany is suffering from a Muslim majority now. Got a bit 'fused.

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>>79241510
dont know
ask the mayor of your capital

>>79241278
we like to 'look after' old stuff because you can't trust bloody foreigners

>>79241549
He's too busy shagging Angela merkel up her arse lad

Because they have the lands. Egypt, most of the Middle East, India were British. Iran was under British influence. Britain supported Greece against the Ottoman Empire and Greece accorded them easier rights to delve its ground.

>>79241501
Have you ever actually been on /b/

because niggers don't value foreign culture. you have to realize Egyptian Arabs are just Arabs who didn't like Egyptians to begin with and destroyed much of ancient Egypt. Just look at how they treat Copts nowadays, who are the most connected to ancient Egypt. Egyprtian Arabs "we wuz egyptians n shiet" is relatively new, a 1920's effort to give Arabs living in egypt some kind of own identity. That was half aborted with the war against Israel when the Arab identity rooted even deeper.

>>79241322
that goes for Greece too. Greeks didn't give a fuck about "their" ancient history until Germans and other western europeans showed it to them. It was crumbling and buried and being stepped on by "Greeks" which makes me seriously question the ancestry of modern Greeks.

It's a good thing westerners took all sorts of history into Europe. If not, who knows how much more would've been lost.

>>79241762
Christians also massacred the Egyptian heritage. They massacred the statues in front of Abu Simbel Temple and burnt the Great Library of Alexandria because they didn't accept some people have other believe than their God.

>>79241844
at least Europeans aren't standing over the dead bodies of Egyptians claiming they wuz Egyptians.

it really gets my noggin joggin that Arabs spent centuries actively supressing and eliminating ancient egyptian culture and heritage and now that they it is mostly gonne, they go on how they are actually Egyptians and not Arabs.

While treating Copts, whose liturgic writtings are actually late Egyptian language, like shit.

Really makes me ponder.

>>79242084
>at least Europeans aren't standing over the dead bodies of Egyptians claiming they wuz Egyptians.
we do that desu

>>79241762
>Copts nowadays, who are the most connected to ancient Egypt
Source?
(Other than from /pol/).

>>79242174
>Copts, whose liturgic writtings are actually late Egyptian language

>>79241278
>>79241348
Britain and France were the big boys, with Britain usually being at the forefront of techniques with what we know as archaeology today with the likes of William Cunnington and John Aubrey.

>>79241278
Because England is tiny and has no history compared to Egypt.

>>79241501
Do they post historical traps and tell you that your mother will die in her sleep if you don't post on a thread about the Second World War?

>>79242584
they are int but with more obscure topics

What did the Ancient Britons look like?

>>79242899
We have no idea, it isn't even firmly established who they actually were.

>>79242084
>While treating Copts, whose liturgic writtings are actually late Egyptian language, like shit.
It's because they won't convert to Islam.

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>>79242899
Whoever they were they fucking loved stone circles. The British Isles has the most stone circles anywhere in Europe.

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>>79241601
Thanks, France.

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>>79243012
>>79242922
I'm sure they were arab... we like stones

They have plundered foreign lands because they are perfidous

>>79242084
But those copts still just marginally gave more of a shit about ancient egyptian culture

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>>79243078
you're welcome

>>79243717
Good lads though

>seal on gravechamber of 4000yo pyramid untouched through egyptian rule
>untouched through roman rule
>untouched through arab rule
>untouched through mongol raids
>untouched through mamluke era
>untouched through turkish rule
>brits come along
>JOLLY HO WHAT'S THIS HERE THEN

Are brits the worst people ever?

>>79244401
Wasnt there a group of anglo archaeologists who all died months after opening Tutenchamons tomb?

>>79244401
Mongols were stopped from reaching Egypt though :DDD
Also Tombs were usually sacked and stolen of their contents. Only the hidden ones or cursed ones are left

>>79241278
they are pirates

>>79245331
yarrrr

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>>79241278
not only frenchmen can likes mummys