Last August, the Dallas Observer wrote a nice even-handed story on Romeo Hristov, the Bulgarian archaeology who made waves by publishing an article about a possible terra cotta Roman head found buried in a pre-Columbian tomb in Mexico. Many art historians feel the head is genuine; many archaeologists are rather skeptical. Hristov had a devil of a time even getting to see the head, which was discovered by one of the fathers of modern Mexican archaeology, Jose García Payón, in 1933, and locked away in a museum. “I was looking for the piece two and a half years. It’s not easy to convince to check. But if you persist, bring beer, tell dirty jokes, eventually they start to like you. " Not everyone does, though. One archaeology professor said “I’m actually teaching a course this spring, based on my encounters with Mr. Hristov and others. The title is Fantastic Archaeology. "