{"id":19,"date":"2007-03-09T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/archaeoporn.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:14:50","slug":"archaeoporn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/archaeoporn.html","title":{"rendered":"Archaeoporn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/convergence\/tomb\/tomb.html\">Lost Tomb of Jesus<\/a> documentary that the Discover Channel aired then subsequently countered and suppressed had one upside for archaeology: the popularization of the term &#8220;archaeoporn&#8221; to describe the documentary. It was actually said on a panel discussion that aired after the actual show. While this new and exciting word is sweeping the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/jesus.tomb.panelists.point.to.holes.in.directors.archaeoporn\/9820.htm\">news<\/a> (check out the headline!) and blog world, I wanted to see if this word has shown up before. Doing a search of &#8220;archaeoporn -jesus&#8221; gave me results not having to do with the documentary. Here are the results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/science\/article1398041.ece\">article<\/a> about a &#8220;gladiatorial torture block&#8221; at Chester, England. Here the term probably refers to the use of the block in mass entertainment during Roman times, not the sensationalist aspect of the discovery.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/janusdoa.livejournal.com\/1064294.html\">blog post<\/a> from someone who had found an old CD full of pornography. Definitely not the same usage as in the Lost Tomb of Jesus rebuttal.<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it, the etymology of the word archaeoporn. A relatively new word and already there are three definitions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For those who want to know more about the statistical argument against the assertions in Lost Tomb of Jesus, Dr. Randy Ingermanson has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingermanson.com\/jesus\/art\/stats.php\">well-written explanation<\/a>. He&#8217;s a Cal alum too!<\/p>\n<p>(Basically, &#8220;Few even think to ask <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Question_%28comics%29\">the question<\/a>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When I typed &#8220;archaeoporn&#8221; into Google, it asked if I mean &#8220;archaeopteryx.&#8221; No, Google, I really mean &#8220;archaeoporn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Tomb of Jesus documentary that the Discover Channel aired then subsequently countered and suppressed had one upside for archaeology: the popularization of the term &#8220;archaeoporn&#8221; to describe the documentary. It was actually said on a panel discussion that aired after the actual show. While this new and exciting&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/archaeoporn.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Archaeoporn!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[8,15,22],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}