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Public Perceptions of Archaeology
Public Perceptions of Archaeology

Indiana Jones is a romanticized archaeology professor who is secretly a treasure hunter that finds strange artifacts to bring back to the museum and the university for which he works. Indiana Jones is hardly an archaeologist. He tends to stray from traditional procedure and behave much in the way an antiquarian would.

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Photographing the Wellcome Collection
Photographing the Wellcome Collection

The Wellcome Collection is a collection of artifacts originally collected by Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome. He was born on August 21, 1853 and dies on July 25, 1936. In his early life his travelled and preached in a covered wagon peddling his wares. He sold a lot of invisible ink, which was simply lemon juice.

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