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| * Eli Hunt is a British historian who specializes in mysteries surrounding the Ancient Olympics. He maintains a web site at [[TheLostGames.com]]. | * Eli Hunt is a British historian who specializes in mysteries surrounding the Ancient Olympics. He maintains a web site at [[TheLostGames.com]]. | ||
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Eli
- Eli Hunt is a British historian who specializes in mysteries surrounding the Ancient Olympics. He maintains a web site at TheLostGames.com.
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Biography
ELI HUNT
Some people call me an amateur historian. Others call me an adventurer. I see myself as an investigator.
What do I investigate? Ancient Olympic mysteries.
Biography
I grew up in the city of York. My father was a professor of archaeology, my mum was a professor of history. When I was 10 years old, they took me on an "educational holiday" — to the ruins at Ancient Olympia.
Most of the tourists were paying attention to the best preserved parts — the Temple of Zeus, the palaestra colonnade, the entrance to the stadium. I was more interested in the piles of rubble, the places no one was looking.
My parents didn't even notice I had left their side. It was two hours before they found me digging through the dirt. They were quite mad at me for running off — until I showed them what I'd found — a tiny bronze statue.
I turned the statue in to the archaeological museum, and their researchers later authenticated it as a lost work of Pheidias, the greatest of all ancient Greek sculptors. The researchers were thrilled, my parents were proud as could be, and the media dubbed me a young hero of history.
I've been an avid fan and researcher of the Ancient Olympics ever since.
In recent years, I've become especially interested in the "lost history" of the Olympics — the stories that most experts dismiss as urban legends, without even bothering to look for evidence. I ask the questions that most historians and archaeologists have never even tried to answer.
In the past few years, I've spent a small fortune traveling the world, following up on the leads that everyone else wants to ignore.
My first book chronicling these investigations, The Lost Olympics: Forgotten Mysteries and Urban Legends from Ancient Greece, will be published in late 2008.
In the meanwhile, I'm pleased to share some of the stories with you on this site, through my new podcast series "The Lost Olympics."
Contact me
I'm always looking for new leads on mysterious artifacts and strange discoveries.
And if you have your own theories about Ancient Olympic history, I'd love to hear them.
Email me: thelostgamesSPLATgmail.com
Media
Eli has two videos available at dotSUB, a site designed to "give[ ] anyone the ability to translate video content into multiple languages via subtitles rendered over the bottom of the video."
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