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what those cuneiform tablets doin tho?
(i.imgur.com)
Ea-nasir’s ingots are sweating rn
Except of course no one would bother smuggling such inferior quality metal in the first place.
Looks like they're being seized, probably under federal civil asset forfeiture laws, because they were being smuggled into the country by the illegal antiquities market.
The British Museum would have been so proud if they had gotten away with it.
... which is still an absurd abuse of power, made clear by treating inanimate objects as persons. Literally lumps of clay.
"Forfeiture" is how cops excuse stealing cash. They can just take it, and make you sue to get it back, because there's no presumption of innocence. You were not charged with a crime. Your money was. And that's different, somehow, because go fuck yourself.
The best thing is that things are not people. So they don't actually have any rights (they don't have to have a lawyer, there is no presumption of innocence, no jury trial...)
It was only a matter of time before we sued history.
bastards had it coming
We should have known how vile they were when they stoned Rosetta.
They're Cuniforming up
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