I have enjoyed my summer class on nineteen and twentieth century archaeologists. The hook was Indiana Jones but they must have talked about that the first two weeks which I missed. At first the teacher (a graduate student) wasn't sure she wanted to include the access students but, as often happens, they mellow out over the quarter so now we are included more.
Really the discussion every week centers around the British Museum. As in should all of the finds dug out in the ancient world be shipped to the British Museum? Or stayed in their home country? It always comes back to this. Even us hard liners were shocked to see the films of ISIS people taking jackhammers and sledgehammers to Mesopotamian ancient sites and blowing up mosques. Nooooo!
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