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| === Content Overview === | === Content Overview === | ||
| ==== Podcasts ==== | ==== Podcasts ==== | ||
| - | * The Lost Sport of Olympia ([[Podcast/The Lost Sport of Olympia|details and transcript]]) | + | |
| - | * The Ancient Game Keepers ([[Podcast/The Ancient Game Keepers|details and transcript]]) | + | * [http://www.thelostgames.com/1/podcast.do The Lost Sport of Olympia] ([[Podcast/The Lost Sport of Olympia|details and transcription]]) ([http://dotsub.com/films/thelostsportofolympia/index.php @dotsub]) |
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| + | '''The Lost Sport of Olympia''' | ||
| + | :Has the greatest sport of all time been forgotten for almost 2000 years? | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | * [http://www.thelostgames.com/2/podcast.do The Ancient Game Keepers] ([[Podcast/The Ancient Game Keepers|details and transcription]]) ([http://dotsub.com/films/theancient/index.php @dotsub]) | ||
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| + | '''The Ancient Game Keepers''' | ||
| + | :In August of 1953, a series of tremors shook the Greek island of Kefalonia, revealing an ancient stone chamber for less than a single day. | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | * [http://www.thelostgames.com/3/podcast.do The Omphalos Code] ([[Podcast/The Omphalos Code|details and transcription]]) ([http://dotsub.com/films/theomphalos/index.php @dotsub]) | ||
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| + | '''The Omphalos Code''' | ||
| + | :Imagine you’re wandering the countryside of Ancient Greece. Would you be able to find your way home? | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | * [http://www.thelostgames.com/confession The Secret Artifact] ([[Podcast/The Secret Artifact|details and transcription]]) ([http://dotsub.com/films/thesecret_2/index.php @dotsub]) | ||
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| + | '''The Secret Artifact''' | ||
| + | :This is the most difficult story I’ve ever had to tell. I’ve waited 30 years to tell it. | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| ==== Biography ==== | ==== Biography ==== | ||
Revision as of 22:13, 11 March 2008
TheLostGames.com
- Direct link
- Official website of Eli Hunt
- Discovered on March 5th, 2008
Content Overview
Podcasts
The Lost Sport of Olympia
- Has the greatest sport of all time been forgotten for almost 2000 years?
The Ancient Game Keepers
- In August of 1953, a series of tremors shook the Greek island of Kefalonia, revealing an ancient stone chamber for less than a single day.
The Omphalos Code
- Imagine you’re wandering the countryside of Ancient Greece. Would you be able to find your way home?
The Secret Artifact
- This is the most difficult story I’ve ever had to tell. I’ve waited 30 years to tell it.
Biography
- Eli Hunt's Biography:
- 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
