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“It belongs in a museum!” But does it, really? That’s one of the questions modern archaeologists confront when they study ancient artifacts. The world’s most famous fictional archaeologist, Indiana Jones, has his newest and confirmed last movie in theaters, which brings up the question again- how accurate are these moves to archaeology? Each of the Indiana Jones films has led real archaeologists to decry the simplification of their painstaking research and the depiction of magical powers in ancient artifacts, but Bulgarian archaeologist Petar Parvanov writes about the facets of archaeology that the Indiana Jones films get right.
First, the movies point out in a spectacular way how destructive archaeology can be. They also highlight how cultural artifacts have been used for political purposes. And there’s the question of what really belongs in a museum, and who gets to decide who those cultural or even sacred artifacts really belong to. Parvanov has examples from the movies and from real life archaeology that illustrate each of these ethical questions about studying mankind’s history. -via Smithsonian
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