#archeologists

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Just because this argument is even more stupid once you actually deal with real archeologists on a daily basis.

Bonus under cut.

Excavation of the City of Nineveh

Artist: Frederick Charles Cooper (British, 1810-1880)

Date: 1852

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Property from the Najd Collection

Description

Little is known about Frederick Charles Cooper prior to the 1840s. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844 with a work titled Ophelia. He became recognized after he joined Austen Henry Layard (archeologist, politician and diplomat) on a significant expedition in 1849 as the official artist. Layard writes in his 1853 text Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon ‘the assistance of a competent artist was most desirable, to portray with fidelity those monuments which injury and decay had rendered unfit for removal. Mr. F. Cooper was selected by the Trustees of the British Museum to accompany the expedition in this capacity’.

The expedition resulted in the excavation of Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia. Layard had first seen the mounds of Nineveh when he and his travelling companion Edward Mitford passed through Mosul in early 1840. He explored the ruins in 1847 however two years later, on the eastern shores of the river Tigris opposite Mosul, the lost palace of Sennacherib was discovered. Cooper produced important watercolour works and drawings of the excavation and local topography in Northern Iraq and north-east Syria. Many of the original drawings are in the collection of the British Museum, including a work depicting two lions at the entrance to the shrine of Ninurta, Nimrud; a drawing showing an enormous human-headed Assyrian winged gateway figure being lowered by ropes onto a wooden trolley; and a watercolour version of the present lot inscribed Arabs engaged in excavation. The present oil portrays the same tunnel through Sennacherib’s palace however Cooper has placed the figures differently and included a bas-relief on the left. The relief is likely an invention although based on carvings he knew from his drawings on site.

The Turoe Stone sculpture is a masterpiece of Irish Iron Age art and normally stands in the village of Bullaun near Loughrea, Co Galway. It had been moved in the 1850s from its original location near the Rath of Feerwore, an Iron Age ring-fort structure, at nearby Kiltullagh. The stone is currently off site and in the hands of the Office of Public Works for essential remedial work and unavailable…

A) trans skeletons are able to be identified by archeologists so not really sweetie

B) im not exactly significant enough for someone to graverob my fucking corpse up and play with my bones at random

C1) if an archaeologist is peeking at my bones its probably been very fucking long from my death and i wont give a shit because (you guessed it) I'll be dead!

C2)Plus thats alot of time for technology to advance and I'll assume people would have at least gotten to the point of consistently being able to match a record to some bones and will see who i was.

C3) If not? No biggie i dont give a fuck I'm more stoked about the sociologists and historians finding out who i was.

C4) is a fucking explosive