Fake mummies as old as the real thing

At least with fake mummies you have to put some real effort into it. Though a fake mummy that's 4,000 years old is probably about as interesting as the real thing... I wonder what they'll make of Trump and Alex Jones 4,000 years from now.

Originally shared by Event Horizon

There's not much information at the link. I saw a story on DeutscheWelle TV news a few minutes ago. Perhaps it is fake news ? 😆

Something more for the archaeology of the present moment: the amplitude of complexity and technological depth augments inversely to the diminishing cycles of frequency - this aperture of frequency being a moving window upon (and as) a fleeting present moment.

Wilfrid Sellar's notion of "manifest image" is apt - that bundle of beliefs, interpretations and notions with which we weave meaning out of (or as) our world; a semiotic vocabulary with which to cultivate or inhabit a personal or shared narrative space. If the scope and range of living memory and cultural or semiotic relevance is shrinking, pari passu the technological and conceptual means of sophisticated investigation and definition, it may just be that any signification or aspiration to meaning and purpose is better than none at all. In a rapidly accelerating frame, the vacuum of metaphysical or ideological anchors may invoke an anxiety and desperation to seek conceptual purchase on just about any thing at all, true or demonstrably not.

Fakes news may be old news but technological sophistication breeds a deep and (generally unacknowledged) self-propagating insecurity, itself a rationale, platform and foundation upon which artifice and falsehood thrive.

I may have to unpack this extensively later but, and perhaps ironically, I doubt I will have the available time with which to do so...

#FrameDragging
https://www.deutschland.de/en/news/exhibition-fakes-in-archaeology