You make a bunch of great points, but I'd like to add that archeology can (and IMO ought to) be interesting to a tech audience even when it isn't wrapped up in modern geopolitics.

The article links to the paper [1] that describes the tests used to detect forgeries and the results for this particular artifact. There are electron microscopes and chemical analysis and all kinds of sciency stuff. I'll take that over "I rewrote an app in a different JavaScript framework" any day of the week.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03344355.2023.2...