"It's a dream come true for archaeologists to actually find what you set out to find, amazing".
Saturday's dig confirmed that the legend is true, although the archaeologists on hand estimated that the E.T. cartridges numbered in the thousands, not the millions.
The Damascus Gate is just 15 minutes by foot, along a route that passes the Garden Tomb -- a tranquil spot that Victorian archaeologists insisted was Jesus' true burial place -- and a brace of souvenir shops, the best of them being the Armenian-run Palestinian Pottery.
Most archaeologists would insist the true value of their work lies away from the glamour of kings and nobles and with the lives of the ordinary people of the past.
True or not, Mr. Adams said, the archaeologists found "no trace of any kind of trauma on any of the skeletons".
Historians and archaeologists plan to reveal the true face of the author of Don Quixote of La Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes, as they embark on a quest to find the lost bones of one of western literature's key writers.
Cosimo, an archaeologist by temperament, was a true forerunner in this field.
The Blombos team argued that this represented a continuous, long-standing symbolic tradition, but some archaeologists question whether such etchings qualify as true symbolic behavior.
Dr. Carl Lambert-Karlovsky, a Harvard archaeologist, questioned whether the symbols on the artifact represented true writing.
In Italian legal proceedings, defendants are allowed to make spontaneous comments, and Ms. True's remarks came in response to testimony by Daniela Rizzo, an archaeologist and prosecution witness.
