'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
Slightly off-topic but perhaps someone has an answer:After finishing "Dark Forest" / "Death’s End" I somehow ended up with the questions if our way of doing archaeology is actually a good idea.Currently we i) remove a lot of things from the ground / graves / ruins, ii) analyze them, iii) put them in a museum and iv) write books about them.This means that all the knowledge about those artifacts and our history is stored in volatile documents and fragile minds. During the next WW3 or WW4 those museums might burn down and all archaeologist might be killed in an anti-intellectual purge.This means that a future generation will neither have the real artifacts in the ground nor our current documentation and all that knowledge about humanities history will be lost forever.Is there any project which strives to preserve our current knowledge about humanity in some sort of long-term storage so that also people in 500 or 2000 years will be able to reconstruct even without having access to 'real' artifacts? Is this actually a problem which current archaeologist think about?