14. "RE: Friends Like These"
In response to message #11
>> Archaeologists always assume that whatever they found was a religious artifact. > >If they can't come up with a better explanation, yes.
One of my favorites among illustrator David Macauley's many books is 1979's Motel of the Mysteries, in which an amateur archaeologist in the year 4022 stumbles upon a motel, frozen in time by the great catastrophe that destroyed the ancient land of Usa in 1985. It is entirely predicated upon this gag. :)
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