Sanctioned Pack Rats

When I read something like this,

"Egypt is about to begin the painstaking five-year task of cataloguing and restoring some 90,000 pharaonic and other artifacts which have lain almost forgotten for decades since they were dug from ancient ruins."

it makes me wonder if all the digging archaeologists do is merely compulsive digging, or a chance for a shot at glory if they stumble upon something big.

Dig it up, annotate a note, stuff the artifact in a box and forget about for years and years.  Maybe more could be learned if there was a private market for these relics?

“Egypt to Catalog Artifacts in Neglected Basement."

Via Yahoo News.

Posted by on 06/07 at 04:26 AM

  1. mummies are scary.

    so are skellingtons.

    lung

    Posted by lung  on  06/07  at  10:40 AM

  2. free mummia now!


    (tee-hee)


    lung

    Posted by lung  on  06/07  at  10:41 AM

  3. In the book Lost History of the Canine Race which I had called attention to here, there is extensive discussion of how much information about the wolf-dog transition, and animal domestication in general, was lost because archeologists either tossed aside or packed away relevant remains.

    Posted by triticale  on  06/07  at  01:27 PM

  4. triticale - I was not aware of the sniffer dogs, or the lost info on wolf-dog transition, but I was aware of maggots being used medically.  There was a mention of maggot use in the book “Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission." An interesting story about survivors of the Bataan Death March and life as a POW in a Japanese camp, and their rescue.  Good read.

    Posted by  on  06/07  at  05:47 PM

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