Yes, it's interesting to think about how Pompeii and Herculaneum are one of the biggest archaeological (re)discoveries of the nineteenth-century, and what cringingly bad -- by modern standards -- behavior those first (re)discoverers engaged in, from making unsubstantiated assumptions, to improperly tracking intact items and throwing away shards of items, to stealing away national treasures ... versus what we do today, and whether we may look similarly careless and thoughtless to future archaeologists...
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Yes, it's interesting to think about how Pompeii and Herculaneum are one of the biggest archaeological (re)discoveries of the nineteenth-century, and what cringingly bad -- by modern standards -- behavior those first (re)discoverers engaged in, from making unsubstantiated assumptions, to improperly tracking intact items and throwing away shards of items, to stealing away national treasures ... versus what we do today, and whether we may look similarly careless and thoughtless to future archaeologists...