FOLLOWING THE BREADCRUMBS OF THE PAST

We seem to be perpetually fascinated with the past; trying to figure out how Stonehenge was built, whether or not the Romans and Greeks read out loud or silently to themselves, how King Tut died. The only way historians and archaeologists have back into the past is the order on which things were built and the clues left behind. What kind of trail are we leaving for our successors? The Atlantic 09/00