> And while we're at it, why is it that not every single damm > piece of parchment and clay tablet is on the internet for everyone to work with, oh and starting with > the Dead Sea Scrolls which everybody knows about but few are allowed to see??
AMEN!!! I have been saying this for/years/. Every time we open a tomb in Egypt but don't hear another word about the writings covering its walls. Every time I see a research center in South America with a vault full of rubbings from Aztec/Incan/Olmec ruins and not enough researchers to go through it. It drives me absolutely nuts.
The most common excuse is of course that the scientists working on [piece of ancient writing] have the prerogative to withhold items from perusal to guarantee that any interesting discoveries therein will carry their names and no one else's. Being that I'm one of those crazy people who believes that science is about the advancement of knowledge rather than careers, I find this altogether repulsive. Here's one future linguist who would love a chance to contribute to our pool of knowledge on/any/ of our lost civilizations.
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> And while we're at it, why is it that not every single damm
/years/. Every time we open a tomb in Egypt but don't hear another word about the writings covering its walls. Every time I see a research center in South America with a vault full of rubbings from Aztec/Incan/Olmec ruins and not enough researchers to go through it. It drives me absolutely nuts.
/any/ of our lost civilizations.
> piece of parchment and clay tablet is on the internet for everyone to work with, oh and starting with
> the Dead Sea Scrolls which everybody knows about but few are allowed to see??
AMEN!!! I have been saying this for
The most common excuse is of course that the scientists working on [piece of ancient writing] have the prerogative to withhold items from perusal to guarantee that any interesting discoveries therein will carry their names and no one else's. Being that I'm one of those crazy people who believes that science is about the advancement of knowledge rather than careers, I find this altogether repulsive. Here's one future linguist who would love a chance to contribute to our pool of knowledge on