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'Archaeological finds' in the Aquarium of the Atlantis Hotel, Paradise Island, Bahamas (photo by Jerrye and Roy Klotz MD).
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In post-modernity, the millenarian search for mythical sites has become a tourist attraction and the process of culturalization of consumption has created and is creating a new global heritage. Places already celebrated for leisure have been reinvented as mythical and archaeological sites. A good example is the Atlantis Hotel on Paradise Island, in...
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