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From: "Daniel P. Tompkins" <pericles@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
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Thanks to David!

Has anyone noticed, when you glance at these shows about antiquity on TV,
that the people on the screen are often identified as
"Archaeologist" without institutional affiliation?  Sometimes they are
quite loopy, other times OK.  But what does it take to win this
epithet?  

Dan

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, David Meadows wrote:

> Well since we are in a lull, here's something I came across in the World 
> Weekly News (which I use to get headlines for creative writing assignments 
> for my class):
> 
> Space Aliens Backed Julius Caesar
> 
> Modern-day politicians suchs as Bill Clinton and George W. Bush arent the 
> first leaders ever to win the endorsement of space aliens, historians say. 
> A team of archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient mosaic proving an 
> extraterrestrial helped the great Roman general Julius Caesar rise to 
> power. "Caesar often told his compatriots that his conquests were achieved 
> with help from the gods," said British archaeology Robert Parkaway. "The 
> mosaic we discovered depicts one of these gods -- and it bears an 
> extraordinary resemblance to what is known as a 'gray type' alien."
> 
> 
> ... now all we have to wonder is whether JC was visited by 'men in black 
> togas' ...
> 
> dm
> 

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