archeologist

Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. [...]
So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel,
and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried
treasure, and X never, ever, marks the spot.
[ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ]

"I cannot be having with archeological excavations, myself,"
I said. "The fellows who dig them only ever find tiny walls
and a few bits of broken pottery, and then they get all
excited and swear that they have just made the most
important discovery of the century, the ruins of a mile-high
gold-covered temple to Frogmore the God of Bike-Saddle
Fixtures or some such."
"I think you will find," said Mr Rune, "that they do this
in order to secure further government funding for their
diggings and so remain in employment."
"That is a rather cynical view," I said.
[ the brightonomicon, by Robert Rankin ]

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