> I'm sure both his face and actions were the inspirations for several villains (I'm pretty sure Blofeld is partly based on him)

Not being a huge Bond aficionado, I figured he (or someone very much like him) was an inspiration for Marvel Comics' Baron Strucker. I now see that character was probably ripped off pretty directly from Blofeld.

I love to read a good debunking of some theory or lore I've never heard before. The history they never taught us in school...because it never happened.

I want to watch it for the site visits, but it's so hard to listen to him drone on about himself.

Yeah, I understand having a beef with anthropologists and their hyper-narratives, but anthropologists are not the only people looking back at the past, as you said.

It's easy to mock the subset of cultural anthro's who think every ancient site or artifact was tied to a "fertility ritual" at the "dawn of agriculture," but they don't speak for everyone.

He's also much better-known and much more profitable than most academic researchers ever will be, so the martyr complex is just a marketing tool.