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The Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relic(news.artnet.com)

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Ertebolle@kbin.social
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The tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there’s not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.

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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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Now there’s even less of the original wall.

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Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Only a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus

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DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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The whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it’s already the Ship of Theseus and always was.

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