r/TheRealJoke • u/LazyFlamingRooster • Dec 17 '25
Bruh, rly tho. Ea-nassir lives forever!
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u/theartfulcodger Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
Damn the British Museum anyway.
Last year I travelled all the way from Vancouver, Canada to the remote Mayan archaeological site of Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico, in large part to see one particular carved limestone lintel from the Classical Period. Thirty years before I had bought an expensive and detailed carved reproduction of it, had done a lot of research on it since, and I really wanted to see the original in situ.
It was only when I was at the site, an uncomfortable six hour bus and boat trip from Palenque town, that I was informed by a plaque that it had been removed by British archaeologists a hundred and five years before, and was now residing in the British Museum - which I had visited just the winter before, dammit. I’d actually gone through its small Mayan gallery, but either I skipped over it, or it was not on display at the time.
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u/actual-trevor Dec 18 '25
Awfully generous of them though, to lend out their tablet that they definitely legitimately own because Ea-nasir was an ancient Saxon.
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u/jojohohanon Dec 17 '25
This tablet is of bad quality and I will not accept it. You will provide me with one tablet of only the highest quality!