This is actually a fun bit of historical trivia. That passport isn’t something someone just cooked up in Photoshop. It’s real.
In 1976, his remains were issued an Egyptian passport (nearly 3 thousand years after his death) so that he could be transported to Paris for an irradiated treatment to prevent a fungoid growth.
Image Credit – HeritageDaily (Please note, this is an artists recreation and is not the original passport)
For anyone that missed it, this version was cooked up in Photoshop. But an actual version does exist
Oh goodness that’s funny.
Just put him back in his dark, dry grave.
Making a 3000 year old mummy rely on hightech that wouldn’t last a 100 years, smh.
(Sorry, your short comment inspired me. Sorry this ended up being so long.)
I imagine it’s a hard balance to strike. These artifacts and mummies ultimately need guarding. They’ve been protected from the centuries only by obscurity alone. All the ancient tomb traps failed long ago. You could put him back in his tomb, but now you have to guard the tomb. Otherwise someone will break in there and steal it. Some oligarch would absolutely pay a fortune for the bragging rights of having Ramses II’s mummy on display in their villa. With the shear number of mummies and historical sites in Egypt, if you left things where they are, the Egyptian government would have to pay people to guard thousands of sites around the clock. And you then have to worry about the guards stationed at these isolated sites being bribed to look the other way as the thieves break in. (Or becoming thieves themselves.)
Amusingly, the Egyptians of today seem to be in the exact same situation as those of 4,000 years ago. Almost all ancient royal graves were looted in antiquity. The discovery of King Tut’s tomb was such a hurricane specifically because it was the only royal tomb we’ve ever found that wasn’t looted. The ancient thieves were after gold and jewels. But today, if they put it up for auction, I imagine the mummy of Ramses II would probably sell for more than its own weight in gold. The ancient thieves mostly tore apart mummies to find jewelry buried within the wrappings. Today the mummies themselves are the jewelry. Ancient thieves robbed the pharaohs of their wealth. Modern thieves have come for the pharaohs themselves.
It’s really just a security problem. Once you dig something up, you have to guard it. And it’s a lot easier to guard a hundred mummies in one museum than it is to guard a hundred mummies at a hundred different tombs scattered throughout the countryside.
Sure, you could just say, “screw it, no more archaeology, we’re just leaving everything in the ground!” But then again, thieves can excavate tombs just as archaeologists can. And if you never reveal the ancient secrets, if living people never get to see these ancient mummies and artifacts, practically that’s little different than letting the treasures be looted. Morally I’m not particularly concerned about disturbing ancient graves. I don’t believe in ancient curses, or that we will be disturbing the real afterlife of a pharaoh by doing whatever we want to his corpse. To me these are just inanimate objects. Their worth comes entirely from the value they have in the present and future as the cultural heritage of the Egyptian people (fuck the British Museum). An artifact left forever in the ground, never again to be seen by living human eyes? To me that has no more worth than any random rock.
Living human beings are what provide value and worth to inanimate objects, even if those inanimate objects used to be human beings. I don’t support looting recent graves or the ancient burials still revered by modern people (like ancient Native American burial sites.) But if the actual living indigenous people are OK with it? If they’re the ones leading the effort? If we’re not going to hurt any living people by digging up an ancient tomb? I’m all for it. Graves are for the living, not the dead. If it wouldn’t cause pain to my own friends and family, I would be completely OK with someone just chucking my corpse in a garbage bin after I’m gone. I don’t need it anymore. To me, it’s literally trash.
Yeah, i’ve forgot the depravity of some people there. Sorry for that.
Is that you Matt Dinniman?
I’m afraid I don’t know the context. :(
He’s an author, your comment read like him. I was just reading one of his books so maybe I was biased.
Very reflected and based take :) quality content, I did not regret reading - thank you for your service to the Fediverse!
Thanks!
I used a photo I found online from my local governments department of transport. The name was “Sam S. Sample” with a photo of Mr Bean. So far Reddit, discord, and pornhub have all accepted it.
I’m in my 30s but fuck giving my government ID to random American corporations with a history of data breaches.
Years ago when I wanted to delete my Facebook account, they asked for an ID. I used McLovin driving license and it was done. It was the style at that time.
Where I am in the US, for more than 10 years, cashiers have been scanning IDs for age verification of tobacco and alcohol. So even if you pay cash, your identity is tied to those purchases.
Wait, Reddit requires ID?
Even in places they aren’t required to take you id by law, they collect EVERYTHING about you. They know already. They know, you are the product.
I’m aware that they collect information about me and perhaps it could be used to figure out who am I. But handing over ID is actually saying who am I, so anything I would post would be tied to my identity.
That’s still a big difference.
For nsfw subreddits/profiles, yes. But literally anyone marking their post as nsfw even to hide a spoiler would prompt the ID check making the subreddit unusable until that post was gone.
Interesting, I didn’t observe that. I wonder if this is only enabled for specific regions or they just have me a pass because my accounts is 16 years old.
fuck giving my government ID to
random Americancorporationswith a history of data breaches.FTFY
I’ve never had to do that other than actual government organizations. It must be American.
I am in Australia where they have banned under 16s from using social media and porn. In reality it’s just forced adults to upload ID to various websites and kids just use vpns
pornhub?
It’s a website that hosts pornographic content.
But that’s not important right now
Almost like some kind of hub, for porn
Don’t worry, your wife believed your post.
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Wish I could’ve used this method to regain OnlyFans access – their verifier took multiple photos of my head for a 3D scan, and the site geolocks its users like Steam, so VPNs wouldn’t work.
Just switch to fansly, no verification required and almost all sellers who have a page on OF have a fansly too
Yus I’ve been considering it, think OF has gotten a little too corporate… Never a bad idea to jump off a sinking ship
their verifier took multiple photos of my head for a 3D scan
They’re gonna replace their creators with AI-generated content from those scans.
OnlyScans.
If a site ever asked me to submit a full head scan, I don’t think I would ever go back to it.
Even the expiration date isn’t correct
I let my license expire once by accident. Found out when I was running an instacart order after work. Figure if I’m going to already drive 50 miles home, mine as well have some stops and make back the gas money. Finished shopping and the person at the counter told me I couldn’t check out because I may have been in my mid thirties last week, but that has since expired so I am infact no longer a person, lol.
Pain in the ass.
Well he’s clearly over the age range, I don’t see an issue.
It’s clearly expired!
Well that just means they’re even older!
Hopefully whatever platform they signed up for isn’t owned by the bloody Hittites
Funny enough, there are villages in eastern Anatolia that are not on the government maps.
They do trade with other towns and have gas, cars etc but population is mainly sheep herders and native to the land like ethnic Kurds with direct connection to the Babylonians.
So there are actual non-zero chances that there is some hidden ancient Hittite village last recorded by Alexander the Great’s empire, and the Persians/Romans who conquered a fort nearby later didn’t survey that particular location before assuming they control its area now, so the village kinda has been sitting there enjoying not paying any taxes; and an actual bloody hittite from that place could leave their rural town today to go get an id and work at tumblr hq.
At least in my history-adjacent fanfic that I just came up with.
Was about to say how much I love it when a random shitpost leads to an insightful comment by an actual expert in a very niche topic. Then read your last sentence. Well played.
Yeah I’ve seen a bunch of these. It’s pretty clear that ID verification is just a drag net to catch the uninformed or stupid people which is going to be like 70% of traffic anyway.
thanks to France, they required the passport to be transferred there, so Egypt printed one
Also, sadly this is not that real passport. You can tell (at a minimum) because the first machine-readable passports were issued in 1980, and Egypt didn’t start issuing MRPs until 2008.
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Return the slab
🎶 The man in gauze! The man in gauze! 🎶
What’s your offer?!
Don’t you mean banana gods
I always thought it said ‘Commands the Gods’ as a kid
Thank you! I came to the comments for this :)
“That man belongs in a museum.”
@BonesOfTheMoon I have to admit, that’s very clever.
This age verification garbage is actually the (final) reason why I moved to Lemmy lol
passport number should be A00000001
He has a license to drive a chariot between Sunrise and Sunset.
How can this be! The AI used to search the image is top notch! It’s the LATEST tech!
