Two things. Apparently archaeologists are just "jealous" of the Canadian kid who claimed to have found a lost Maya city using Google Earth. Nevermind the fact that is premise and methodology is flawed. Or that remote sensing experts have said he's looking at fallow fields. Or that many experts who chimed in offered words of encouragement while politely telling how wrong he was. Nope, we're all jealous of a kid and his computer.

The other is that the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles is coming out with an exhibit, "Where Black is Brown: the African Diaspora in Mexico" which I documented on Tumblr. I initially thought it was about African influence in colonial Mexican culture, something that is sorely overlooked by everyone. That is, until they put the summary of the exhibit up and I realized they wanted to push Afrocentric ideas of African pre-contact. It looks like I wasn't the only one upset about this because the next day they revised their exhibit summary to preclude the pre-contact stuff except for one line which includes the word "ancient". I don't live in LA so I can't go to the exhibit and see whether it is actually trying to push Afrocentric ideas or not. I kind of hope it was just the museum trying to spin it to make it more interesting. But there are some people I follow on IG who are going to check it out and report back on how good/bad it really is.