Ancient secrets of the Furnace Worshippers

Being Frank, by Frank Ameduri Have you ever watched those great shows on PBS? You know, the ones with titles like "Ancient Secrets of the Maya," or "Ancient Egypt Revealed." I've always loved those shows, but I've become more skeptical of them over the years. They always rely upon the latest dig of some ancient city, tomb or temple. Archeologists and anthropologists team up to inspect all the little gadgets and goodies, and then they tell us what a typical day was like for an ancient Mesopotamian hamster trainer or how Bronze-Age Minoans fashioned fine dental tools from chicken bones and bees' wax. To support the arguments, they show a one-inch piece of a chicken wing stuck in the mouth of a skull or three strands of hair that either belonged to a Viking trapeze artist or to a mutant mountain yak, depending on which DNA results you believe.