História humorística em que futuros arqueólogos encontram um quarto de motel e acreditam ter encontrado uma grande tumba semelhante à de Tutancâmon

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Eu li no Reader's Digest nos anos setenta. Arqueólogos interpretaram objetos do cotidiano como o aparelho de TV e o assento do vaso sanitário para serem sagrados e preciosos.

    
por Ginasius 24.06.2017 / 13:44

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Este é o Motel dos Mistérios de David Macaulay

A sinopse é a seguinte:

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber.

Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization

uma das críticas menciona especificamente que um segmento diz respeito à ideia de que

"that the toilet seat is a sacred collar one must wear before shouting, down the hole, to the gods below"

    
24.06.2017 / 22:09