• Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I feel like it should be simpler: did the culture the body came from have good enough records in other ways that we would be unlikely to learn anything by digging up the body that we couldn’t learn by studying other records? Then leave it alone.

    If they failed to keep good enough records, and knowledge would be gained by the study, then study away.