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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a melting glacier or a building project uncovers something ancient, who should decide whether it gets dug up, studied, or left in peace, and why?”
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Could this Noah's Ark excavation change our understanding of biblical history?
Partly true as a news event, not as a discovery. Researchers really have started core drilling at a boat-shaped landform near Mount Ararat, and they really used ground-penetrating radar.... The Polar Stump Claim Versus the Record
“..In the midst of the garden.” Explained.. The claim that the North Pole is a leftover garden tree, that Grand Mesa is a living stump, and that old maps plus Sumerian tablets prove a closed disk world is easy to sell on video. It is harder to defend once you check the sources.... Have y'all ever read Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay? I read it in the 6th grade for an archaeology class I was taking-- It's a satirical take on archaeology and how future civilizations might misinterpret our everyday objects....