Posts tagged artefact
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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The Dead Sea Scrolls

Among the 972 documents, which had degraded into several pieces numbering over 50,000, were records of rules about everyday living and multiple copies of several biblical books. About a quarter are books that belong to the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Christian Old Testament.

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