Obituaries aren’t usually quite this exciting. I held my lunch partner spellbound reading this one of James Mellaart, a groundbreaking (sorry, bad pun) archaeologist in ancient Anatolia/Turkey. I’d used his research over the last few years without realizing how exotic his life had been. His story sounds more Agatha Christy than dry academia. He claimed to have discovered the earliest wall paintings known to man, but due to adverse conditions, they crumbled before documentation—but the textiles and pottery he also found there remain amongst the earliest ever uncovered. Riding on a train in Turkey, he was enticed by an attentive young lady to view a long lost horde of Trojan jewels, figurines, swords and treasures. That “discovery” became even more controversial. Read his full obit in The Guardian.
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Have you considered buying the film rights to the obituary? Are there such things? This is the stuff of movies.
It is certainly a very enticing tale.
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