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The stories told by tour guides at ancient sites cannot always be trusted, but the same caution could apply to the tales found in ancient texts. For example, at a cave near Hierapolis, Turkey, the entrance was sealed and a sign warned of poisonous gases. The guide told of an ancient order of pagan priests who sacrificed Christians in the cave. The Roman author Strabo in the first century AD writes of the Galli, eunuchs who descended into the cave while holding their breath, but does not describe what they did there. In the second century, the Roman author Lucian gives a lurid account of the castration ceremony of the Galli.
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An abundance of information on Eastern Hemisphere archaeology is available through the World Wide Web. Sites related to the archaeology of Africa, Anatolia, Asia, Europe, ancient Greece and Rome, and the Near East are described, as well as sites for students and indexes that provide links to additional Web sites on archaeology. Featured sites include one on Thulamela in South Africa, Catalhoyuk in Turkey, Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China, an aerial archive of Austrian sites, the Perseus Project on ancient Greece, and the site of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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Paddle-wheel steamer tours include several Civil War battlegrounds in Tennessee and Kentucky, an area then called the West by contemporary writers. Battles near Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, Paducah, Kentucky on the Ohio River, and Chickamauga Creek on the Tennessee River demonstrate how rivers helped the Union defeat the Confederacy. A directory of cruise companies offering archaeological tours is included.
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