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Carl Sagan, on the loss of the library at Alexandria

Sunday November 30, 2003
From Sagan's romantic novel of a potential future, Cosmos.

Flimsy, Wooden Screen Adaptation

Sunday November 30, 2003
And, for a third ringing unendorsement, Stephen Holden of the NYR says the movie "pounds you over the head with its noisy, ridiculous notions of medieval life": 'Timeline': The ... Read More

Overblown and Stupid

Sunday November 30, 2003
And so did the Washington Post critic, Ann Hornaday (she says it "resembles a Star Trek episode by way of Scooby Doo"): 'Timeline': Overblown Blast From The Past

Stupidly Stuck in the Past

Sunday November 30, 2003
The Washington Times critic Scott Galupo really really hated Timeline, the movie: Stuck in past of stupid 'Timeline'

Interview with Michael Blakey

Sunday November 30, 2003
Archaeology Magazine has an interview with physical anthropologist Michael Blakey on the investigations of the skeletal material from the African Burial Ground in New York City: Return to the African ... Read More

Terracotta Army Research

Sunday November 30, 2003
New article in Nature describes a method developed to protect the surfaces of Emperor Qin's Terracotta Army: Terracotta Army saved from crack up: Plastic solution and particle accelerator revive faded Chinese ... Read More

Pergamum

Sunday November 30, 2003
The Greek and Roman occupations at the Turkish city of Bergama, called Pergamum, have left numerous beautiful ruins to visit and remember.

West Nile did in Alexander the Great?

Sunday November 30, 2003
An article in Nature discusses the possibility that Alexander the Great may have died of a case of West Nile virus: West Nile Virus may have felled Alexander the Great ... Read More

Cross-Bow Physics

Saturday November 29, 2003
EXN Canada has a little video movie on the physics of the cross bow: EXN.ca | Video

Andrew Jones on perceiving the Neolithic

Saturday November 29, 2003
From Jones' 2001 book Archaeology Theory and Scientific Practice.

On Being a Scientist

Saturday November 29, 2003
What does being a scientist mean? Archaeological chemist Nikolaas van der Merwe gave this seminar to the newly organized graduate student association at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, ... Read More

Vinland Map Again

Saturday November 29, 2003
Eureka Alert has the news release straight from the American Chemical Society... Vindication for Vinland map: New study supports authenticity

Vinland Map Supported

Friday November 28, 2003
CNN is reporting on the status of the Vinland map research to date, researchers are trying to determine whether the map is real or not: New World map predates Columbus

The Good Caused by the Bone Box Controversy

Friday November 28, 2003
An article in USA Today by Dan Vergano reports that sceptism is the order of the day after the embarrassing Bone Box episode: USATODAY.com - James ossuary opens a Pandora's ... Read More

Chaco Canyon

Friday November 28, 2003
Every trip to the American southwest should include a trip to the lovely Chaco Canyon.

Heinrich Himmler on doing archaeology right

Friday November 28, 2003
As quoted in Bettina Arnold's 1992 article in Archaeology magazine, The Past as Propaganda.

Cahokia

Thursday November 27, 2003
Go visit Cahokia! An earthen pyramid and city located just east of St. Louis Missouri had a population of at least 10,000 people around 1000 AD.

Ptahhotep on the limits of skill

Thursday November 27, 2003
A quote from the Old Kingdom (6th Dynasty) Egyptian book called The Instruction of Ptahhotep.

Timeline: The Ultimate Archaeology Trip

Wednesday November 26, 2003
The new Richard Donner movie Timeline starts today; here's a review of the book.

Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World

Wednesday November 26, 2003
Cultural resource management studies at the Mississippian site center on the Mississippi River near Saint Louis Missouri are described in this book edited by Timothy Pauketat and Thomas Emerson.

Lauren Oya Olamina (Octavia Butler) on letting the past go

Wednesday November 26, 2003
From Octavia Butler's 1998 science fiction novel, The Parable of the Talents.

Monte Alban

Tuesday November 25, 2003
The ancient capital of the Zapotec state in the valley of Oaxaca, Mexico is well worth a visit

Tea Leoni on how she almost became an anthropologist

Tuesday November 25, 2003
And we thought Hollywood people were dumb. From a 1997 interview with the actress printed in the San Jose Mercury News. Thanks to Michael Forstadt for the suggestion.

Teotihuacan: City of the Gods

Monday November 24, 2003
Traveling to Mexico? Don't miss a visit to Teotihuacan, one of the most important cultural centers of the world during the 4th century AD.

René Magritte on the odors of the present

Monday November 24, 2003
Quoted in Suzi Gablik's 1970 biography of the painter, Magritte.

World's Oldest Kitchen?

Monday November 24, 2003
Discovery Channel is reporting results from the Gona hominid archaeological site in the Awash Valley on a finding of tools and broken animals bones in the same context 2.6 to ... Read More

Techno Solutions to Cave Climate Problems

Sunday November 23, 2003
The Art Newspaper reports on a use of micro-computers called "motes" developed by the American Pentagon to study climate and conditions in caves in China: How the Pentagon is (indirectly) ... Read More

Star-Shaped Towers in Tibet

Sunday November 23, 2003
MSNBC presents a story on a documentary on some star-shaped towers in Tibet, soon to be shown on the Discovery channel: Towers to the Heavens

R. E. Taylor on Two Cultures

Sunday November 23, 2003
From Taylor's 2003 article in The Review of Archaeology called "The 'Two Cultures' in American Anthropological Archaeology."

Before Farming

Sunday November 23, 2003
A print/online hybrid, Before Farming is "the journal designed for archaeologists and anthropologists researching hunter-gatherers past and present". First two issues are free to download; future issues beginning 2003/2004 will ... Read More

Timeline: The Ultimate Archaeology Trip

Sunday November 23, 2003
A book by Michael Crichton (and now a movie directed by Richard Donner) gives the meaning of "archaeological field trip" a new spin.

Where to Learn About Archaeology

Sunday November 23, 2003
News reports in the mainstream press do pass along some information, but even the most dedicated science writer among them can give archaeology only a passing glance. Lucky for us, ... Read More

On the Edge Archaeology

Saturday November 22, 2003
Okay, there are a lot of "out there" archaeological sites on the web--the ones that make a professional archaeologist's teeth grind. Is there a good reason to give these sites ... Read More

Emerson on personal preferences

Saturday November 22, 2003
Emerson, a transcendental poet from 19th century New England, had several things to say about the past; here's one.

Walt Whitman on the teeming gulf, the infinite greatness of the past

Saturday November 22, 2003
From Whitman's poem Passage to India, dated 1900 and part of Leaves of Grass.

Lynn Meskell on the hope for archaeology

Friday November 21, 2003
From Meskell's introduction to her book of collected essays called Archaeology Under Fire.

Sleepy in Seattle

Friday November 21, 2003
A trip to a Society for American Archaeology meetings sets off a chain of reactions: Just what is radical archaeology?

T.H. Huxley on choosing one's grandfather

Thursday November 20, 2003
A pithy quote from one of the 19th centuries most forward of thinkers, known as "Darwin's Bulldog".

Archaeology of Death: Encounter with a Dowser

Thursday November 20, 2003
Although it would be very nice to think that we could find the truth with a witching rod and the right attitude, most of the time you have to do ... Read More

Tall al-Umayri Reports

Wednesday November 19, 2003
Reports from excavations at Tall al-Umayri in Jordan include the discovery of a stone burial structure dated t the Early Bronze Age: 5,000-year-old burials discovered in Jordan

Llactapata: A Big Inca Discovery or What?

Wednesday November 19, 2003
Mark Rose at Archaeology magazine remarks that the announcement by the Royal Geographical Society of the discovery of a new Inca site near Machu Picchu is a tad overblown: Commentary: ... Read More

Ruth Benedict on the purpose of anthropology

Wednesday November 19, 2003
From Ruth Benedict, one of the pioneers in anthropology; and passed along to us by Sharlotte Neely.

The Archaeology of Death

Wednesday November 19, 2003
A dip into the study of death and dying from an archaeological standpoint

Interview with John Noble Wilford

Wednesday November 19, 2003
On the NYT website this week is an interview with long-time science journalist John Noble Wilford: Questions for . . .: John Noble Wilford

Talbott on the iceman

Tuesday November 18, 2003
A winning quote from the 1997 Bulwer-Lytton contest.

Tweaking the Theory of Evolution

Tuesday November 18, 2003
From ScienceDaily, a report on ongoing work at Michigan STate on how the process of evolution might have worked: Research Sheds New Light On Process Of Evolution

Klasies River Caves

Tuesday November 18, 2003
What does it mean to be human? Archaeological excavations at one of the earliest Homo sapiens site on the planet, the Klasies River Caves site in South Africa, teach us ... Read More

Unmasking Piltdown Man

Tuesday November 18, 2003
A report from BBC News on a reconstruction of the renowned Piltdown Man hoax, including information about the original dig and who might have perpetrated the most famous anthropological hoax ... Read More

Aeschylus Manuscript Unwrapped

Monday November 17, 2003
Part of a missing Aeschylus play on the Trojan War has surfaced, when pieces of a manuscript were identified as having been used to wrap a Ptolemaic mummy; the report ... Read More

B. S. Johnson on the Future of Architecture

Monday November 17, 2003
From Terry Pratchett's hilarious Men at Arms

Massive Underwater Project Scheduled

Monday November 17, 2003
A news item in the Mail and Guardian online reports on 4.2 million rand grant from the South African National Lotteries to investigated underwater shipwrecks. SA shipwrecks rise from the ... Read More

Walt Whitman's Unnamed Lands

Monday November 17, 2003
19th century American poet Walt Whitman describes his feeling for this past in this snippet from Leaves of Grass called Unnamed Lands.

Computer Reconstructions

Monday November 17, 2003
Dig Magazine has an interview with Kate Devlin on her work with computer reconstructions of archaeological sites: Interview with Kate Devlin: Computer Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites

Seeking Atlantis Still

Sunday November 16, 2003
John Noble Wilford of the NYT repots on teh enduring legend of Atlantis: Will We Ever Find Atlantis?

Michael Ondaatje on Unsafely Settled Places

Sunday November 16, 2003
Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje is most famous in archaeological circles for writing The English Patient. This quote is from a short story of his in the Faber Book of Contemporary ... Read More

Clara Dice Roe demonstrates the problems with oral history

Sunday November 16, 2003
A couple of quotes from Bremer County, Iowa history on the Barber brothers, who were either no good horsethieves or misunderstood boys, depending on who you talk to, but were, ... Read More

Arid End to the Old Kingdom?

Sunday November 16, 2003
Researchers at St. Andrews have identified evidence that a severe drought impelled the end of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, at least according to this news story in The Herald: The ... Read More

Who owns the past?

Sunday November 16, 2003
Who owns the past? We all do. So, how can we best serve the past as archaeologists and interested people?

Them Athabaskan Bastards

Saturday November 15, 2003
Earlier this year, I published the lyrics of the archaeological song called "Them Athabaskan Bastards". Recently, I received an email from archaeologist Nikolaas van der Merwe, who recalls the ... Read More

The Archaeology Channel

Saturday November 15, 2003
The Archaeology Channel is a non-profit source for archaeological videos and other multimedia projects; and it may very well be one of the best applications of the Internet yet.

Bruce Trigger, on the implications of multiple standpoints

Saturday November 15, 2003
A quote from Trigger's 1998 article in the American Journal of Archaeology called "Archaeology and epistemology: Dialoguing across the Darwinian chasm.

Captain Spaulding's greatest contribution to science

Friday November 14, 2003
A quote from that great 1930 Marx Brothers' classic, Animal Crackers.

Excavations at Hoang Thanh reported

Friday November 14, 2003
A Reuters story reports on excavations at the palace of sixth century AD town of Hoang Thanh, Viet Name Vietnam Unveils Ancient Artifacts from Excavation

L'Anse aux Meadows

Friday November 14, 2003
Archaeological excavations in Newfoundland, Canada, reveal evidence of a failed Viking colony on the Atlantic shore of the American continent.

"Streamlining" Cultural Resources Away

Thursday November 13, 2003
Ah.... gotta watch that Bush administration. According to a recent NYT article, the new transportation bill might have some sinister language in it, weakening preservation rules: The Road to Preserving ... Read More

Walt Kelly on the view behind us

Thursday November 13, 2003
A quote from Kelly's 1970 book of Pogo comic strips called Impollutable Pogo.

Alaskan Horse Extinction Studied

Thursday November 13, 2003
According to a BBC News report from an upcoming article in Nature, some researchers hypothesize the extinction of the horse from Alaska was the result of climate change: Climate 'killed' ... Read More

The Explorations of Dinah: An Old Pal

Thursday November 13, 2003
The further adventures of Dinah Abernathy, archaeologist and cranky old dame; visiting a professional meeting and debating the contract vs academic worlds.

Chaoshan site uncovered

Wednesday November 12, 2003
A story in China Daily reporting from the Fifth Chao Studies International Seminar, describes the identification of kilns from a Hutoupu period site in Guangdong Province: New Stone Age kiln groups ... Read More

Olmec Site contains human remains

Wednesday November 12, 2003
Yahoo news reports on work of Carmen Fajardo at the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, who has been excavating an Olmec site outside of the Mesoamerican corridor: Ancient Bones ... Read More

Doug Charles on shades of the past

Wednesday November 12, 2003
A quote from Charles' 1992 article in American Anthropologist called "Shading the past. "

House Hunting: Archaeological Houses

Wednesday November 12, 2003
Having a home--a place to be protected from the weather or your enemies--is a long-held need for Homo sapiens. This article is a guide to how house construction has changed ... Read More

Working in the Dark

Tuesday November 11, 2003
CSU at Monterey is having electrical problems; their archaeology laboratory lost its electricity at the end of October and it might be a while before it goes back on line: ... Read More

Indiana Jones, on why archaeology will never make a good movie plot

Tuesday November 11, 2003
Quote of the day from the 1989 screenplay called Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

How to Avoid Snakebite

Tuesday November 11, 2003
A fictionalized account of an archaeological field experience in the mountains of New Mexico, where the two-legged variety of snakes don't always succeed in biting.

Robertston Davies on archaeologists and domestic architecture

Monday November 10, 2003
A quote of the day from the 1991 novel Murther and Walking Spirits.

The Archaeological Field School

Monday November 10, 2003
Want to gain experience in archaeology? Thinking about a career or just looking for some interesting things to do with your summer vacation? Then the field school is for you. ... Read More

Looking for Spinoza

Monday November 10, 2003
Interesting interview in New Scientist with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on what 17th century philosopher Spinoza can do for us in the modern world: Virtue in Mind

Banjo Studies

Monday November 10, 2003
This is cool: a scientific study backing up what American banjo players have known for a long time. That a banjo is darn-near infinitely adjustable: Physicist picks over banjo folklore: ... Read More

CFP: 7th Maritime Heritage Conference

Sunday November 9, 2003
the National Park Service has published its call for papers for the 7th Maritime Heritage Conference, next October in Virginia. What's New - Maritime Heritage Program

Sellar and Yeatman on what history is

Sunday November 9, 2003
From the 1930 book called "1066 and all that"

History of Gadgetry

Sunday November 9, 2003
Zoe Williams' column in the Guardian Unlimited this week is a humorous look at the history of gadgets Heroes of their hour

Somebody Murdered Chaucer?

Sunday November 9, 2003
Terry Jones has a new book coming out called "Who Murdered Chaucer" that he doesn't want to talk to the Discovery Channel about, but it seems to be a serious ... Read More

Red Ocher @ 90,000 years BP

Sunday November 9, 2003
According to an article in Science News online, from an article in the October Current Anthropology by Erella Hovers, red ochre has shown up in 90,000 year old deposits at ... Read More

Inca Site Found Near Machu Picchu

Sunday November 9, 2003
News story in Reuters discusses the new discovery by Hugh Thomson and Gary Zeigler of an Incan site near the town of Llactapata, 50 miles from Machu Picchu: Explorers Rediscover Incan ... Read More

New Windover Findings

Saturday November 8, 2003
An article in the Tampa Bay Florida newspaper reports new ethnobotany findings from the Windover site: Seed Study Breathes Life In Old Remains

Thang Long royal citadel found under parliament construction

Saturday November 8, 2003
According to a news report in IOL, excavations in advance of a new parliament building in Hanoi have uncovered part of the remains of the Thang Long royal citadel, dated ... Read More

Indian Mounds of Mississippi

Saturday November 8, 2003
A website from the National Park Service on several mound sites in the state of Mississippi (not necessarily Mississippian in period).

Donna Gabaccia on the immigrant paradigm

Saturday November 8, 2003
From Gabaccia's 1999 article in The Journal of American History called "Is everywhere nowhere? Nomads, nations, and the immigrant paradigm of United States history."

An Archaeology PhD by Email

Saturday November 8, 2003
The University of Leicester has developed an innovative distance learning program in archaeology, providing exciting new possibilities.

Deep Rooted

Saturday November 8, 2003
An article in New Scientist reports on Leslea Hlusko's research (published in Current Anthropology) attempting to find the reason for grooves cut into hominid teeth: Grass stalks fit bill for earliest ... Read More

Guy Fawkes Analysis

Friday November 7, 2003
A report in New Scientist describes investigations into the 16th-century political Gunpowder Plot planned by Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament and kill the king and how much damage it ... Read More

Lisa Maurizio on the meaning of the Oracle at Delphi

Friday November 7, 2003
A quote from Maurizio's 1997 Classical Antiquity article called "Delphic Oracles as Oral Performances: Authenticity and Historical Evidence."

Inagina, Last House of Iron

Friday November 7, 2003
A documentary from the University of Geneva captures the ancient processes of iron smelting in West Africa

Pleistocene Glacier News

Friday November 7, 2003
Another article on the upcoming Geological Society of America meetings, this one on Bruce Bjornstad's research on pleistocene glacial movement in Montana, from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Newsletter: Sky-high ... Read More

More on the Repatriation Movement in the UK

Friday November 7, 2003
BBC News reports on the latest battles in the repatriation movement in the United Kingdom: Indigenous people win bone battle

GSA: Climate role in evolution

Thursday November 6, 2003
A news report from the Geological Society of America meetings in Seattle beginning next week previews an upcoming session on climate and evolution: Debate heats up on role of climate in ... Read More

Suthon Sukphisit Ploenpote Atthakor

Thursday November 6, 2003
The Bangkok Post reports that art historian Suthon Sukphisit Ploenpote Atthakor has died: Art historian Subhadradis dies aged 80

American Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920

Thursday November 6, 2003
A digital collection of manuscripts from the Library of Congress, sure to be enormously useful and fun for the researcher and afficionado alike.

Barbara Bocek on bioturbation

Thursday November 6, 2003
The article this quote comes from should be in every archaeologist's filing cabinet: "The Jasper Ridge reexcavation experiment: Rates of artifact mixing by rodents," American Antiquity 1992.

The Post-Modernist Maury Povich

Thursday November 6, 2003
A gruesome exercise in multivocality on archaeological science on the Fox News Network proves what some modern television personalities think of when they think "archaeology".

Limpopo River Valley Field School 2004

Thursday November 6, 2003
3 June-30 June and 26 July-22 August, 2004. University of Witswatersrand. Tours, classes, and excavations at paleoanthropological sites in the Makapan Valley of South Africa.

The Tall Poet Unearthed

Thursday November 6, 2003
A dreadful story in Yahoo News reports that scientists plan to dig up the 15th century poet Petrarch, to find out if he really was as tall as he was ... Read More

Council for West Virginia Archaeology

Wednesday November 5, 2003
Thanks to reader Roger W for the tip on this website, maintained by professional archaeologists in the state and with loads of good info on West Virginia archaeology.

TechnoPagans

Wednesday November 5, 2003
An alternative megalithic site, exploring the Celtic religious and artistic elements of henges and related sites, what webmaven Cerridwen Connelly calls a Book of Shadows.

Praetzellis on tolerating ambiguity

Wednesday November 5, 2003
This quote is from Praetzellis' entertaining (!) introduction to theoretical studies in archaeology called Death by Theory.

Articulations: Chatting with Archaeologists

Wednesday November 5, 2003
An archive of nine chat transcripts with today's working archaeologists.

Settlement of Europe

Wednesday November 5, 2003
A study published in the Journal of Quaternary Science this month reports that human immigration into late glacial Britain was quite rapid: Humans Sped to U.K. After Ice Age, Study ... Read More

Cascadia EarthQuake Traced

Wednesday November 5, 2003
Evidence of the Great Cascadia earthquake of 1700 AD has been identified in the form of a shipwreck off the island of Honshu, Japan, according to this news story in ... Read More

Monastic Matrix

Tuesday November 4, 2003
A scholarly page dedicated to the study of women's religious communities between 400 and 1600 AD.

Allie Fox on evolution's joke

Tuesday November 4, 2003
This rant is from Theroux's great creepy novel, The Mosquito Coast, although I cheated on the last sentence, which in the book is after some more ranting about women.

Too Much Information!

Tuesday November 4, 2003
Article in the BBC News reports of the enormous surge in information collected in our Information Age: World drowning in oceans of data

Digging through Darkness

Tuesday November 4, 2003
Archaeologist Carmel Schrire describes and defines her career and experiences excavating in colonial period South Africa sites with a collection of uncomfortable stories

Oetzi an Italian?

Tuesday November 4, 2003
Isotppic investigations suggest that Oetzi, the 6,000 year old fellow found frozen in the Alps a few years ago, was born in the South Tyrol: Iceman mystery solved

Albert Einstein on the cosmic religious experience of science

Monday November 3, 2003
Not sure where this quote comes from; I found it floating around on the web and Bartleby's says it was quoted in the newspapers when Einstein died.

Hadrian's Wall in Trouble

Monday November 3, 2003
BBC News reports that a route along Hadrian's Wall crosses England is far too popular for its own good: Popular Roman path needs repairs

Context is Everything

Monday November 3, 2003
An investigation of the concept of "context" in archaeological research and why archaeologists get so bent out of shape over looting and antique collections

Lost Norse Colony Not Found

Monday November 3, 2003
CBC reports the results of the research of Gisli Palsson and Agnar Helgason searching for a reported Norse/Inuit colony: DNA tests debunk blond Inuit legend

Protecting Uruk

Monday November 3, 2003
The Art Newspaper reports this week that although the Americans didn't list protection of the ancient Sumerian site of Uruk was part of the administration of the Iraq province of ... Read More

Vindolanda Tablets

Monday November 3, 2003
An online store of images and English translations of the tablets unearthed at the Roman site of Vindolanda, dated to the late first and early second centuries AD.

DOI Funding Falls Short

Sunday November 2, 2003
Article in the US Newswire reports that the Americans for National Parks are concerned that the latest Department of Interior bill has too little money set aside for funding: ... Read More

Pompeii: Portents of Disaster

Sunday November 2, 2003
From BBC News, a page on why the warning signs of impending eruption were ignored by the people of Pompeii includes a great deal of information on what the excavations ... Read More

J. W. Schopf on pond scum

Sunday November 2, 2003
Attributed to paleobiologist J. William Schopf, this quote should find its way to many college archaeology classes.

Chunnel Archaeological Archive

Sunday November 2, 2003
An article in the Guardian Unlimited describes the archaeological archive assembled during the work invested in the Chunnel's building, including among other things a Neolithic long house, a Roman villa, ... Read More

Uncommon Ground

Sunday November 2, 2003
The difference between how the public and the archaeological community view the "sacredness" of a cultural resource.

Margaret Mead Film Festival

Sunday November 2, 2003
The American Museum of Natural History will hold a film and video festival featuring the work of anthropologist Margaret Mead on November 6-9, 15 and 16, 2003. Margaret Mead Film ... Read More

Mausop Site, Massachusetts

Saturday November 1, 2003
Story in Boston University's BU Bridge on research at an interesting site in Massachusetts. Student analyzes Native American artifacts found beneath Quincy playground

Science Friday: Oetzi

Saturday November 1, 2003
Ira Flatow's Science Friday spent an hour on the new findings about Oetzi. Hear the tape: Alpine Iceman / Bat News

Deagan on the ethnic stew of Latin America

Saturday November 1, 2003
From her 1996 article "Colonial transformation: Euro-American culturan genesis in the early Spanish American colonies," from the Journal of Anthropological Research.

Thera Eruption Discussed

Saturday November 1, 2003
Article in the NYT discusses Santorini's eruption 3000 years ago. Scientists Revisit an Aegean Eruption Far Worse Than Krakatoa

Ramesses I Returned

Saturday November 1, 2003
According to this report on Reuter's, the Carlos Museum of Atlanta, Georgia returned the mummy thought to be Ramesses I to Cairo; and Egypt's secretary-general of antiquities Zahi Hawass is ... Read More

Quotes from Henry Jones, Jr.

Saturday November 1, 2003
For reasons that can't have anything to do with the new DVD release, CNN has a list of quotes from the Indiana Jones movies: Memorable lines from the 'Indiana Jones' ... Read More
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