As I was thinking about how fun it would be to have a job where you solve puzzles in the world, it struct me that media never depicts archeology in a real light. My short search seemed to confirm my thoughts. Most ancient sites are not guarded by elaborate traps or secret riddles to get in. From what I’ve found there were some crossbows here and there. Some rare hidden rooms with a lot treasure, but again, no traps.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a modern day person that buried their fortune with them under puzzles and traps.
We have a modern version of the deadly temple:
This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.
Tbf there’s that one tv show about that one island in canada or something that had buried treasure and a bunch of traps but then it turned out the treasure had already been found and they think a freed slave found it when he bought the island back in the day or something like that.
Admittedly I’ve only seen one episode, a friend who watched it filled in the details on where it went lol.
That’s what shell companies are for. Legally burry who owns the assets
Would that make lawyers modern day archeologists?
More like financial investigators, or whatever their official title is supposed to be.
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Probably meant forensic accountants. Tracking the people that we are least know to have plundered these places.
The reason we don’t have more mummies is that the aristocracy back in waiting w were literally eating them.
No, forensic lawyers and accountants who unpick it would be the archaeologists.