Ispectrum Magazine Ispectrum Magazine #03 | Page 39

by John Sims website www.ispectrummagazine.com WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURES irst let’s clear up that I’m not writing about treasure as in gold doubloons or buried loot. Archaeological treasures are discoveries that advance our knowledge. The searching for treasure is treasure-hunting, not archaeology. Treasurehunters tend to destroy the archaeology to get at the gold. That doesn’t mean that there’s nothing on my list that has a value in monetary terms.lessons… F There are of course all the usual names, pyramids, Stonehenge, Avebury, Machu Pichu, Nazca, Angkor Wat, Wall of China, Forbidden City, Pompeii et al. Those are so well known that you can hardly turn on the telly without at least one of them being in a documentary, so I won’t be listing any of them. 38