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0 pointsnuc1e0n1y ago0 comments

Yep. They also did partial reconstuction work of the great wall in modern times and passed it off as ancient. Similarly, Stonehenge in the UK was also partially reconstructed in the 20th century.

Sensoji temple in Tokyo was also rebuilt to its original design in the 1950s.

The giant stone Buddhas of Afganistan could do with reconstructing IMHO as well.

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aragonite1y ago

> Yep. They also did partial reconstuction work of the great wall in modern times and passed it off as ancient.

Do you have a source for "and passed it off as ancient"?

nuc1e0nOP1y ago

Not off the top of my head, but a lot of the misleading is done through omission, for which there is no source obviously. The stretch near Beijing gets a lot of tourists and by default they're led to believe they're walking on an ancient wonder. I think it's not made clear enough any of it was rebuilt in modern times, let alone which bits were. But also many historical buildings have been rebuilt multiple times over a long period of history.

With Sensoji, which pieces of wood represent the temple? It's a sort of ship of Theseus situation in any case.

Modern history is still history, and also forms part of the story to be told.

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