I love stories like this one, from today's Spiegel-on-line, about archaeological digs in Thuringia revealing a very large Bronze-Age building ca. 1380 B.C., and giving historians things to wonder about, not least how did the man buried nearby accumulate such wealth. If given another life to live, I might like to be an archaeologist....

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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