Founding of Alexandria

[apollinaris]

No archaeology has ever been found to support the traditional accounts of Alexander the Great founding Alexandria (Egypt). This, despite the very many modern histories repeating the tradition as a proven fact - which raises a question as to what historians and archaeologists are actually doing.

More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded

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[endlessrarities]

'Graduate students clacking on computers and diligently cataloging artifacts in the small laboratory'.

Sounds like heaven. Or am I just a really sad person who needs to get a life???

Oh, and I bet it's warm there...

[apollinaris]

Alexandria today is 17°C, nice, though not much warmer than where I am on England's south coast. I bet it's a lot warmer than Scotland today, though.

Come on - would you really want to spend your days indoors, working a database, or in the field?

Me, I take my laptop everywhere, so try and do both.

[endlessrarities]

I'm a finds person. I don't do mud. Not by choice, anyway!

When they push me out (and they do), I'm like a dog in the rain. I shiver and whine and claw at the door begging to come in again...

Maybe it's symptomatic of working in the west of the Scotland. Rain comes with the territory. Though I did have one nine month stint of digging where I only wound up soaking wet once...