@bilbosfootcomb It's despicable that these commentators can only conceive of Gazans as suffering, or else deceiving. Even those who claim to want peace or something don't even hide that they would deny Gazans what is a fairly modest meal. Though I guess hardly surprising
@theomachist@no_earthquake Yeah agreed. I haven't done a deep dive but I've only seen discussion of it on museum and gallery websites, actual research seems lacking. In my mind the statues would've been decorated to be life-like, but then that's a generalisation and techniques must've varied
@theomachist@no_earthquake Mostly traces left on statues. The specific pigments that have been found were used in these reconstructions. Although from what I've found online there is no consultation from these restorers with original techniques, if there even are any ancient books on the topic that survive