[NEW VIDEO] Meet the translator behind Christopher Nolan's Odyssey Emily Wilson has been vilified and lied about on social media for the last two months. In fact, the last 9 years She was my former professor of ancient Greek at Penn. So, naturally, I wanted to talk with her about translating the Odyssey and being a public scholar Our conversation covers the gods and heroes of the Odyssey, as well as topics of slavery, feminism, vegetarianism, and carnivory. We dive into various approaches to poetry and translation and the reception of Greek myth. And of course we touch on the new movie It's a great conversation, and I hope it humanizes her and debunks many of the lies about her Watch it now! Link: youtu.be/9p5VeyX1PJE

So this video isn’t just about one damaged site. It’s about Las Playas, Monument Hill, Quitobaquito, the Tohono O’odham Nation—and what happens when huge construction projects move faster than archaeology can keep up. Watch here: youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM

The part that worries me most is what we DON’T know. Earlier archaeological surveys often covered much narrower strips than today’s construction corridor. Some sites may be damaged before archaeologists ever get a chance to find them. /6

Now the bulldozers are back. Crews are clearing land near Quitobaquito Springs, a sacred O’odham place in Organ Pipe. And the Tohono O’odham Nation is fighting a separate wall project along its own reservation boundary. /5

During Trump’s first term, contractors used explosives at Monument Hill in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The Tohono O’odham Nation said the blasting damaged a sacred ancestral place. A later GAO investigation documented those concerns. /4

And Las Playas isn’t isolated. The border cuts through an extraordinary archaeological landscape: ancient trails, rock art, farming settlements, sacred springs, burial places, and sites nobody has found yet. This landscape has been lived in for millennia. /3

This is Las Playas. It’s an enormous intaglio scraped into the desert. You can see its outline from above. But from ground level, it looks like… basically nothing. That’s the problem. Some archaeological sites are almost invisible unless you know exactly what to look for /2

They knew this 1,000-year-old archaeological site was here. It had been mapped, published, and reported to the agencies responsible for the land. Trump's border-wall contractors bulldozed right through it /1 Link: youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM

Trump's Border Wall is OBLITERATING Archaeology. It's the first in a series I'm putting together on the border wall, and more broadly threats to archaeology In this video I cover the archaeology of Southern Arizona and the destruction of O'odham and Huhugam cultural heritage Link: youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM

Join me for a BIG ARCHAEOLOGY livestream to celebrate the fact that my YouTube channel now has 100,000 subscribers! We'll also discuss my next video series on how American archaeology as we know it is being dismantled and destroyed youtube.com/watch?v=eC41PsqR…

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About 3 years ago, we posted our first scripted and edited YouTube video, "The Top 6 Penis Bones in Archaeology" youtu.be/h3I9ny2O8XI Today we gained our 100,000th subscriber! That's more people than lived in most ancient cities In that time, we've amassrd over 6 million views and 1.3 million watch hours. Onwards and upwards! Thanks to all for watching and sharing our videos