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The Invention Of The Internet Essay

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With the invention of the internet, many things in our life have gotten much easier. No longer do papers have to be solely researched in the library and facts can be looked up in a moment’s notice. As it is said, we have the world at our fingertips. The invention of the internet has brought some negative consequences as well, such as the selling and distribution of illegal ancient artifacts across the world. This distribution is not always a bad thing but the sale of fake and looted artifacts can cause a decrease in the amount of confidence that a purchaser has in the item. While searching eBay for ancient Egyptian antiquities, one must be careful to weed out the genuine items from the rest.
One artifacts that can be found on eBay is listed as a “rare Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom serpentine stone shabti.” A shabti is a funerary figured used in Ancient Egypt and was believed to be imbedded with magic that allowed the figure to come to live and work on behalf of the owner in the next world. This four and three fourths of an inch stone shabti is dated to be from the middle kingdom, more specifically from dynasty XII and had been estimated to have been made in 1750 BCE. An artifact of this stature is listed at the hefty price of $34,500 and being sold from the Harer family trust collection. Upon further research of the Harer family trust, it can be seen that they have donated many Egyptian artifacts from this similar time period to California State University at San

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