NEO meaning new and LITHIC - i t h i c - meaning stone. Now let's turn our attention to this site, 13 barrow near Hazelton. This site demonstrates one of the dangers of archaeology, not to life and limb although that may, occasionally, occur. No, I'm talking about folklore. #MovieQuote
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@Leucrotta introducing: Ｌｉｔｈｉｃａ, the greek(?) city made entirely out of rock!
@frost The real kicker is that there IS in fact, a neolithic barrow outside Hazelton. There are two. There's no folklore about a golden casket buried at the site or remains of attempts to rob the barrow (I think this might be in the movie thanks to Sutton Hoo I, where there *were* remains of an Elizabethian attempt) and the dig would have been going on at the time they were filming Raiders, it was very current archaeology at the time!
@frost Some of the stuff around Tanis is real, too. Before and after WWII there WAS a French archaeologist (with no help from the Germans, that's a different story) excavating there. Pierre Montet was trying to prove the events of the Old Testament actually happened; he didn't, but was able to find Tanis actually does show up in the OT. The place actually was Shishanq III's capital and burial place and fell into disuse on its own, no divine sandstorm.
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@Leucrotta Occupational Testament
(don't mind me, one of our friends (who is a horse!) is studying to be an Occupational Therapist and calls it "OT" so that's what I immediately thought of :3)
(I mean technically it-and-its-headmates are all together, I guess!)
@Leucrotta Oh that's fucking COOL.
@Leucrotta Oh COOL!! Did not expect current shit!
Maybe we should rewatch it at some point.