To The Best of Our Knowledge from Wisconsin Public Radio Imagine giving a Cro-Magnon woman a monkey wrench, a computer keyborad, and a TV dinner tray.
Archaeologists have the same problem when they unearth the past.
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge , ancient mysteries and lost worlds. Debunking the myth of Atlantis, and diving into the murky deep to salvage a ship of gold. Kinder tells Steve Paulson that the salvage produced hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold, and an incalculable amount of historic and scientific information. He tells Jim Fleming why the myth has endured. Also, Brian Fagan tells Steve Paulson that new and better technology is permitting archaeologists to derive information about ancient religions based on physical artifacts and architecture.