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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A lot was destroyed but a lot of it was looted and and sold to sleazy collectors. Remember when the guy who owns Hobby Lobby got caught buying looted artifacts?

Still horrible, obviously, but at least there’s some hope looted items will be recovered.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I wonder how many artifacts could be recovered if we could search all the rich people mansions...