Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles

• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s what shell companies are for. Legally burry who owns the assets

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  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Would that make lawyers modern day archeologists?

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    • stephen01king@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      More like financial investigators, or whatever their official title is supposed to be.

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, forensic lawyers and accountants who unpick it would be the archaeologists.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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 approach was literally eating them.

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• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Definitely not the kind of treasure people want to find later.

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• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There was one! Look up Forrest Fenn - the podcast *Cautionary Tales has a double feature about it (S6E44-45). True riddles, and treasure hunts, and some deaths despite no traps being set.

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  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ll have to take a look.

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• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That also reminds me of the Oak Island supposed treasure in that pit.

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