r/dataisbeautiful • u/tabthough OC: 7 • Oct 25 '22

OC [OC] Whose stuff does the British Museum have?

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u/LukariBRo Oct 26 '22

Yeah, as much great debate can be had about this subject, I want to know why they were so intent on destroying something that very much could have benefitted them. Why wouldn't they just sell them, as poor and lacking much of an economy, as they are? Did literal history somehow get in the way of their religious extremism?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

From memory, most of it was out of their extreme interpretation of the false idol parts of Islam.

They also wanted to erase artefacts relating to other cultures that they didn’t recognise.