yesterday i participated in my first archaeological dig and i found pottery shards and animal bones and got to log that i found them and im really excited about it :)

knowledge drop: caves were sacred places in mayan culture and served as sacrificial sites, but also places to perform rituals because caves were seen as a limbo between heaven and earth, called Xibalba. a place to meet the gods!

knowledge drop: in 356 BC, a man named Herostratus wanted to make history so he burned down the temple of Athena, one of the wonders of the ancent world. The people of Ephesus banned any mention of his name, so he would be forgotten, but one historian, Theopompus, wrote it in his archives.

knowledge drop: a new species of dinosaur has been discovered that predates the t-rex and would have been the apex predator around 85 million years ago!