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A Birthday Gift
Pros
Great for the Archaeologist or Historian.
Cons
Difficult to get into if you are not an Archaeologist.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
If you are an historian or Archeologist, this magazine will make you feel like you are on a dig. If you are not an historian or Archeologist, fuhgeddabout this magazine.
My wife received a subscription to Archaeology on her last birthday. We have so far received two issues of this magazine. I have come to the conclusion that Archaeology is for archaeologists or historian eggheads. The stories should be interesting, but the style of writing is so flat and boring.
The first issue March/April 2002 shows the atrocities that people committed in ancient times were just as bad if not worse as those of today. Among the articles was "Grim Rites of the Moche" about an excavation at a pyramid site in northern Peru yielding evidence of gruesome ritual sacrifices. Some of the examples are an image from a Moche painted vessel depicted the "Presentation Scene," in which officials slit the throats of bound captives to collect blood in goblets for the priestly elite. Ceramic and unfired clay statuettes and vessels showing bound, nude, and painted captives common Moche funerary items hint at the treatment of prisoners prior to sacrifice.
Another article, "Who's in Tomb 55?" was about a dig at Egypt's Valley of the Kings. To me, this article was very boring and difficult to follow.
Another article in this issue, "Uncommon Light" was about the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia. This article was uninspiring and did not do anything to motivate me to visit Angkor Wat. I have read other articles in travel magazines that were much more motivating for the reader.
In the second issue May/June 2002, one article, "The Race to Save Afghan Culture" is about a Swiss museum that tried to do something before it was too late. Unfortunately, they were too late to save the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in March of last year. The debate on whether to rebuild the Buddhas continues. The article estimates that 80 percent of the country's cultural heritage has been destroyed or sold off.
Another article in the issue, "Emerald City" was about an exploration in Egypt's Eastern Desert that revealed the mines that furnished Rome's elite with coveted stones. Unfortunately, today groups of tourists arrive in four-wheel drive vehicles from hotels on the coast and then wander unchaperoned, leaving behind plastic water bottles and juice containers. The tour guides know nothing about the site and do not care if the tourists climb on walls or help themselves to pottery sherds.
The articles and archaeology news in each issue are very current and timely. One news article, "Straight Outta Brooklyn," about a carved stone jaguar head seized by police from a Brooklyn garage in November 1999 is finally going home to Guatemala. This article was the push I needed to take these magazines straight outta my house and into my neighbors.
I hope my wife does not receive a renewal to this magazine as a birthday present next year from our friends.
The first issue March/April 2002 shows the atrocities that people committed in ancient times were just as bad if not worse as those of today. Among the articles was "Grim Rites of the Moche" about an excavation at a pyramid site in northern Peru yielding evidence of gruesome ritual sacrifices. Some of the examples are an image from a Moche painted vessel depicted the "Presentation Scene," in which officials slit the throats of bound captives to collect blood in goblets for the priestly elite. Ceramic and unfired clay statuettes and vessels showing bound, nude, and painted captives common Moche funerary items hint at the treatment of prisoners prior to sacrifice.
Another article, "Who's in Tomb 55?" was about a dig at Egypt's Valley of the Kings. To me, this article was very boring and difficult to follow.
Another article in this issue, "Uncommon Light" was about the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia. This article was uninspiring and did not do anything to motivate me to visit Angkor Wat. I have read other articles in travel magazines that were much more motivating for the reader.
In the second issue May/June 2002, one article, "The Race to Save Afghan Culture" is about a Swiss museum that tried to do something before it was too late. Unfortunately, they were too late to save the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in March of last year. The debate on whether to rebuild the Buddhas continues. The article estimates that 80 percent of the country's cultural heritage has been destroyed or sold off.
Another article in the issue, "Emerald City" was about an exploration in Egypt's Eastern Desert that revealed the mines that furnished Rome's elite with coveted stones. Unfortunately, today groups of tourists arrive in four-wheel drive vehicles from hotels on the coast and then wander unchaperoned, leaving behind plastic water bottles and juice containers. The tour guides know nothing about the site and do not care if the tourists climb on walls or help themselves to pottery sherds.
The articles and archaeology news in each issue are very current and timely. One news article, "Straight Outta Brooklyn," about a carved stone jaguar head seized by police from a Brooklyn garage in November 1999 is finally going home to Guatemala. This article was the push I needed to take these magazines straight outta my house and into my neighbors.
I hope my wife does not receive a renewal to this magazine as a birthday present next year from our friends.
