why do archaeologists have to dig up tombs?

[FreshPrince]

sometimes you'll hear in the news that some archaeologist found some all important tomb and dug it up for the rest of the world to see...

how would they like it if someone digs up their graves in the future?

they would say it's to study how people lived in the past, but really...who cares if the emperor of china had 10,000 slaves burried with him? hmm...maybe that's not a good example, but I'm sure he wouldn't want other people to dig up his tomb...

are all archaeologists atheists?

 

[slpaulson]

I get what you're saying. I think the idea is more that these ancient tombs are more or less lost monuments, while modern graves aren't much more than a pine box.

 

[Sukhoi]

Well they need to do something with that college degree.

 

[toekramp]

i'm dead, who the fck cares what they do with me

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: toekramp
i'm dead, who the fck cares what they do with me

 

[Cooler]

because its history!

 

[jlee]

As long as I'm definitely dead, it won't bother me if historians want to study my remains in a few hundred years.

 

[SampSon]

How else will they learn about the things they excavate?

 

[OulOat]

That is why you haunt your tome and cast curses on all whom trespasses. Duh.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

are all archaeologists atheists?

I don't really understand what that has to do with it. I suppose some religions like confucionism which has great respect for the dead might object. Otherwise it's just a pursuit of historical information.

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: toekramp
i'm dead, who the fck cares what they do with me

so you don't care if your dead body gets fed to a pack of wild hungry dogs?

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

are all archaeologists atheists?

I don't really understand what that has to do with it. I suppose some religions like confucionism which has great respect for the dead might object. Otherwise it's just a pursuit of historical information.

I don't think confucionism is a religion..but I may be wrong...

also, you're telling me christians don't have a rule about burrying their dead and keeping their bodies buried?

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: toekramp
i'm dead, who the fck cares what they do with me

so you don't care if your dead body gets fed to a pack of wild hungry dogs?

He's dead, he won't care lol. Why would he care, what would it matter?

 

[Sphexi]

What would you care? You're dead, aren't you? Whole point of a tomb is to advertise who you were, what you did, and unearthing them and displaying them in museums accomplishes that goal perfectly. I really doubt that someone who died 3000 years ago is crying over us staring at him now or something.

 

[notfred]

I'd rather be on display in a museum in 500 years with thousands of people looking at me every day and thinking "hey, that's cool." than just being buried underground somewhere with no one around.

 

[AbAbber2k]

I hope someone unearths me (if i'm not cremated) and learns something about the past in doing so. You're dead, so you don't care. The worms might though, I dunno. As for being atheist.... all you need to know is that our favorite pass-times are pissing on the deceased after we dance all over their graves.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: RCN

Originally posted by: toekramp
i'm dead, who the fck cares what they do with me

 

[Leper Messiah]

Hey. If they want to unearth me, I'm cool with it. Is there like a form I can sign for that?

 

[Shadowknight]

Better the stuff go in a museum. There have been many tombs where everything was cleaned out by thieves and sold on the black market or wherever. Might as well be somewhere everyone can see it. One person or another is going to grave-rob the place anyway.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah
Hey. If they want to unearth me, I'm cool with it. Is there like a form I can sign for that?

If only I could sell someone the rights to dig up my dead body.

 

[ViviTheMage]

It's History.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: notfred
I'd rather be on display in a museum in 500 years with thousands of people looking at me every day and thinking "hey, those ancient humans were well hung!" than just being buried underground somewhere with no one around.

Fixed.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: toekramp
i'm dead, who the fck cares what they do with me

so you don't care if your dead body gets fed to a pack of wild hungry dogs?

Is that what archaeologists do?

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: Eeezee

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: toekramp
i'm dead, who the fck cares what they do with me

so you don't care if your dead body gets fed to a pack of wild hungry dogs?

Is that what archaeologists do?

no, but he said he didn't cared what they did to him...so I went a little extreme