The "Archaeology of Distortion"

What if historical lies didn’t dissolve into the archives, and archaeologists of the future unearthed not only the ruins of cities but also skeletons with unnaturally long noses—

evidence of systematic lies?

Myth-making always masquerades as concern for memory.

Propaganda—as protection.

Aggression—as historical necessity.

The nose grows slowly.

At first, it’s just a small crack in the truth.

Then—the official version.

Then—the textbook.

And one day, the distortion becomes anatomy.

The unicorn, too, was once “proof”—the Horn as an artifact of faith in something that never existed. A myth that became convenient.

Today we live in a time when lies are once again trying to become monuments.

But archaeology always comes after empires and records the shape of their distortions.

Perhaps these sculptures are fragments of excavations of civilizations that rewrote themselves for so long that their lies took on a physical form.