Cleopatra's tomb found. Maybe.
Thursday, 16 April 2009 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spqrbluesIf it wasn't Zahi Hawass touting it for the past year, I'd be a lot more excited about the news now flooding the airwaves about the possibility archaeologists have found Antonius & Cleopatra's tomb. We'll see. I'm nervous about Hawass getting his hands on the real site. I suppose we'll be seeing a crazy documentary with Hawass manhandling mummies soon, and an exhibition with a high admission price. Well, whatever it takes to keep the museums running.
Wish #1: That I could make that documentary. Hey, it'd still be an amazingly cool project.
Wish #2: That the news outlets would stop arguing about whether Cleopatra was pretty or not. Of course, that's the only measure of a woman's worth and the only reason why two of the most powerful men in the world of her day found her a worthy partner. Hawass, stop talking about the size of her nose.
Wish #3: I wish I'd become an archaeologist. I squandered my chances, so too late for me now. I'll waddle off to my day job, scribble some webcomics, and whine annoyingly about it.
Wish #1: That I could make that documentary. Hey, it'd still be an amazingly cool project.
Wish #2: That the news outlets would stop arguing about whether Cleopatra was pretty or not. Of course, that's the only measure of a woman's worth and the only reason why two of the most powerful men in the world of her day found her a worthy partner. Hawass, stop talking about the size of her nose.
Wish #3: I wish I'd become an archaeologist. I squandered my chances, so too late for me now. I'll waddle off to my day job, scribble some webcomics, and whine annoyingly about it.
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Date: 2009-04-17 11:47 pm (UTC)maybe in the next 30 minutes), and paste it to my bedroom wall.Seriously, I hear you about archaeology. I always thought it would have been neat. Unfortunately, I'm a severe wuss when it comes to snakes and spiders, and I hear there's plenty of both on lots of digs. Bleah!
(Final note: I think I really hate Colleen McCullough. I found out she ended her Masters of Rome series with a novel about Antony and Cleopatra titled, what else? So I got it from the library. I wanted to set it on fire, a reaction I didn't even have for the Leckie atrocities. Gaaaaaaaahhhhh!)