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Alexandra Zavis for the LA Times writes about the illegal digging of artifacts in Iraq here.

Kevin Peraino and Joanna Chen published an interesting article in Newsweek called “Archaeology vs. Ideology: In Jerusalem, digging into the past only fuels the fight over the future. Link. To quote the article, “Among God’s real-estate agents, it seems, there is no monopoly on self-righteousness.” Hee-Hawwwww!

Eric Cline has this excellent article in the September 30th Boston Globe. Check out the opening sentences, darlings:
NOAH’S ARK. The Ark of the Covenant. The Garden of Eden. Sodom and Gomorrah. The Exodus. The Lost Tomb of Jesus. All have been “found” in the last 10 years, including one within the past six months. The [...]

Loved Terminator, hated Titanic, and like now I’m wishing James Cameron would at the very least stay out of the field of biblical studies and archaeology. But if you must, read about this bogus “discovery” here. Ugh!

Darlings, it seems some “Christian Archaeologists” found some stones in Iran that resemble wood and it might even be boat shaped. Their conclusion, it’s Noah’s Ark of course.

According to the LA Times, Rome’s ruins are decaying faster than Caligula’s liver. All this, plus tour jogging?!?

According to the NY Times, Susanne Osthoff, a German archaeologist who has worked for years in Iraq, has been kidnapped.

Hanan Eshel, one of the leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholars, along with his graduate student at Bar-Ilan University, Roi Porat, were charged by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) for illegally locating and purchasing an ancient document, which in this case turns out to be a scroll fragment from the Book of Leviticus nearly 2000 years [...]