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A Historical Fantasy
An Archaeological Mystery
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- St. Anne's Church, Annaberg-Buchholz
- Shark Embryo
- The Freedom to be Bad at Things
- The Double Helix Staircase
- In New Jersey, Legalizing Pot and Expunging Past C...
- David Alvarez
- The Staffordshire Helmet
- What do Adjectives Mean?
- Is the Opioid Epidemic Finally Cresting?
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park
- Paolo Veronese
- Art World Insiderism
- Treating Peanut Allergies
- Tornagrain New Town
- The Mini Terracotta Army
- Coming Together on Criminal Justice Reform
- Markenfield Hall
- Simone Weil
- In Japan, the Kei Truck Garden Contest
- Amazon in Queens and Arlington, Virginia
- Greek Pots
- Not Much Interest in the Economy
- Face-Deer Coins from 9th-Century Denmark
- Reading the Riot Act
- Imagined Ruins
- Deities
- November 9 in German History
- Religion and Adolescent Depression
- Moderation Wins
- Toshiyuki Enoki
- What Can We Change about our Identities?
- Figurative Art 40,000 Years Old
- The Short, Hungry Life of the Moneen Cave Boy
- Who Writes what you Read on the Internet
- Election Day Sunset in Catonsville
- The Virgin of Quito
- Still Divided in America
- Larry Hogan's Re-Election and the American Electorate
- Fall
- Individualism and the 60s
- A Map of Migrations
- The Mind of a Scholar
- Karl Georg Merville, Fall of the Angels
- Ghosts have been Clanking Chains for a Long Time
- Today's Place to Daydream About: Tikal
- Beauty and Happiness
- Villa Knoop
- Yehuda Amichai, "Sonnet"
- The Getty Restores Adobe Churches in Peru
- Apothecary Jar
- Ara Guler
- Corduroy Road
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
1 comment:
Sometimes I wonder how accurate our assessments of historical things really are.
I mean, sure - these carved faces might very well depict deities. But what if they actually just depict some local wealthy and influential family? Or maybe something as mundane as a town council or village elders?
If archeologists of a distant post-collapse future found Mount Rushmore in isolation, surely they too would leap to the conclusion that it was depicting ancient deities? After all, why else would people go to all the effort of carving giant faces into a mountainside? Who could inspire such an act without being a major religious figure?
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