Re: infotainment: LANGUAGE EXPERTS SPEAK TO THE FUTURE

Padraic Brown wrote:
> They'll probably think it's some damn temple or grave and dig it up.
Hmm, hadn't thought about them deliberately digging it up.

> Of course, there's also
> the curious mumification process, which involves burying the decedant
> in deep chambers surrounded by tons of radioactive materials. Must
> have been some kind of religious superstition wherein the Ancients
> thought that a dead person would come into some kind of afterlife if
> nuked over a period of time.
Or quite probably, they won't know about radioactivity, and think that
the pictographs were just to scare off superstitious people, like
legends of curses on mummies.

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