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05/14/2008: "Indiana Jones movie flatters nazis, backhandedly"

Other than Indy's brief classroom scenes, the closest thing to authentic archaeology in the "Indiana Jones" flicks is done by the bad guys, whose elaborate, systematic digs in "Raiders" resemble actual excavations.

"Not a whole lot of what we know as archaeology goes on in these movies, except what the Nazis do. They seem to be doing some real archaeological work," said Walsh, who wrote the cover story in the May-June issue of Archaeology magazine examining the real history of crystal skulls featured in the new "Indiana Jones" movie.

[ Nazis are generally portrayed as serious and methodological. ]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/13/indiana.jones.arch.ap/index.html

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on Wednesday, May 14th, Osama bin Laden said

The Germans did some very interesting archaeological digs. The infamous "nazi shrunken heads" that were considered part of the alleged holocaust are actually finds from remnants of old South American tribes.

http://www.onethirdoftheholocaust.com/nazishrunkenheads/