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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
National Geographic "excavates" file footage amid Apocalypto hype
I hate to sound like the typical arrogant archaeologist but I feel the hype surrounding this Friday's release of Apocalypto is going to get old pretty fast. National Geographic has some "archival footage" of Apocalypto's resident archaeologist Richard Hansen excvating a tomb at the "lost city" of El Mirador. Note the spotless white shirt and pants of Hansen in the video, even though he is "searching for the tomb of King Great Fiery Jaguar Paw—perhaps the namesake of Apocalypto's hero, a commoner called simply Jaguar Paw." Hell, I was just looking for a few pot sherds this past summer in Honduras and I still have dirt in my ears.
Posted by Will at December 6, 2006 04:53 PM in Internet and Blogging