Beard slams Hawass over Rosetta Stone

[Jona Lendering]

And of course make the use of the words: Probable, Likely, Unknown, Maybe et cetera,

And they shoukl also learn to start every article with the sentence "I am an archaeologist, which means that I am not a classicist or a historian, so that any argument that I present, based on linguistic or historical evidence, ought to be treated with suspicion."

Right now, I am writing a book on the history of the Low Countries and I consult archaeological and historical articles and books; it is shocking to see how little these two related disciplines know about each other. Historians claiming that the battle of the Teutoburg Forest was important (no; the creation of the limes was what mattered); archaeologists stating that there was such a thing as a "municipium status" for Roman towns - obviously unaware of Millar's famous The Roman Emperor.

We pay for the universities. I wonder why, because the people over there are too lazy to ask their colleagues what they are doing.