Quote Originally Posted by Sky Shadow View Post
You, on the other hand, are likening unique historical paintings to
I take back my being nice about this, you ARE completely unqualified on this topic and it shows itself in spades as you continue to show a complete inability to grasp the way history and archeology work if you think that those studying ancient societies ONLY care about unique paintings and works of art. You're like someone with no building qualifictions trying to argue with a builder that the foundations to a building or supporting walls aren't needed on a house and it shows a mile off.

Quote Originally Posted by Sky Shadow View Post
Unlike La Gioconda or Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers or No. 5, 1948, Transformers and other 80s toys - like lithographic posters - are mass-produced items that exist in such numbers that there will always be ridiculous quantities of them, not unique items that need to be preserved.
Right so according to you, highly advanced civilisations in the past NEVER had mass produced items that were used daily- after all if they did according to your argument, we'd have easy access to them. Yet we don't (including numerous ancient works like the books of Livy which were also fairly widely read by the upper class), funny about that.