This is ~4600 years old

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Yes they did. They could find gold, culture or faith there, or even instantly discover a technology.

But seriously, they did. There was a Babylonian princess who collected antiquities and organized a museum.

Tyrannosaurus lived closer in time to us than to the stegosaurus.

If you actually believe we will fall for a bait like that, you're a moron.

Multicellular organisms lived closer to us than the creation of Earth.

What "bait", idiot?

It was restorated.
Here have some more 2600 BCE artifacts

Well, I hoped it was. Better to be on a board with trolls than retards.

Suspecting one of the "Meh, earth is only 6k years old, the bible says so!" retards?

Ancient egyptians are closer than us than to the pre-flood kingdoms
Fires the neurons vehemently

That's very interesting.

Got a link?

Got me a citation?

The first I've ever heard of ancients doing any archaeology.

Ennigaldi, daughter of Nabonidus. I also forgot about him, he was the one who excavated ruins and found the artifacts for the museum.

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Nabonidus is sometimes called "the first archaeologist" for digging into the remains of ancient Sumer.

>did ancient civilisations dig up other previous civilisations
Yes, all the time. Appreciating old shit

>like we do today? Did they excavate ruins etc? Like documenting it
Sometimes.

Archaeology as we know it today, using material culture to study past societies, is a 19th and 20th century creation. Pretty much every past society valued old shit, but it was usually because certain artefacts or structures were seen as having special value, whether that was artistic (Renaissance appreciation of Greek stuff), magical (Arabs scouring Ancient Egyptian temples and inscriptions for alchemical secrets), religious (alleged pieces of the true cross), or political (medieval Chinese excavation of Shang Dynasty bronzes for use in state rituals). Most of these would be better called antiquarians or treasure hunters than archaeologists, more concerned with the value of the objects themselves than with their place in the societies that created them.

There were some Renaissance European, medieval Arab and Song dynasty Chinese individuals who took things further and came fairly close to 'true' archaeology, using rigorous recording or interpreting artefacts from a social perspective. For example, Shen Kou in the 11th century looked at ancient bronzes from the perspective of how they were made by specialists and used in rituals, rather than just trying to revive their use for prestige. Some medieval Muslims also seem to have been fairly methodical in their keeping of records; see books.google.ie/books?id=rdI96px90kUC&pg=PA45

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Its funny, when Herodotus went to Egypt, and learned the Egyptians worshiped Greek gods, he concluded the Greek gods came from Egypt originally. Even in cases where it made no sense at all, like Hercules. The idea that an idea from Greece could effect Egyptians never occurred to him. To him, Egypt = Old, almost like going there was going back in time.

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Sauce on that pic?

There was a famous Assyrian general or something from like 2000bc who was a self styled historian/what you would call an early archaeologist.

this was a really written and thought out post