beyond the wide world's end

When I applied to college a few years ago, one of my application essays told in exacting detail how I believed in the lost city of Atlantis and its cousin, Lemuria, and how when I got my degree in archaeology, I was going to find it, and prove all the believers right. Whether or not that essay helped me get into college I don't know, but my grand plan of majoring in anthropology turned into a physics major, then back into an anthro major, then into an English major, then history, then medieval and early modern studies, and finally I've rolled back around to classical studies, where at least I'm likely to at some point in time go on an archaeological dig, although I'm coming up on my junior year and have yet to take an anthro class. My search for Atlantis has been pushed aside in favor of ancient Greece and medieval Europe. But that doesn't mean I'm any less interested -- in Atlantis, the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, or a thousand other pieces of history that might be lost or might never have existed at all. I call them Archaeology Conspiracy Theories, or ACTs.

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