Not everyone is happy with the walking Easter Islands statues hypothesis as in the Oct 12th 2012 article in Journal of Archaeological Research, by Carl Lipo and associates. People still want to cling to the idea the islanders dirtied their own nests – it fuels the Green machine (see www.livescience.com/37277-easter-island-statues-walked-there.html
At www.timesofisrael.com/bible-era-find-intrigues-scholars-despite-attempts… … which is a bit mischievous because the evidence can quite easily be destroyed by the other side if the archaeologists make a fuss. Journalists in Israel seem to be much the same as over here (the UK)- and over there (the US). It seems a tour guide leading a group through an underground tunnel near Jerusalem, or should that be Bethlehem, stumbled upon the remains of a carved pillar – indicating a lost building work of some kind. WQhen he informed the authorities they made clear they already knew about it but were keen to keep it quiet. The tour guide didn't buy this argument and went public. He managed to get some archaeologists to look at it and they thought it was 8th century BC and the tunnel was perhaps one of the water tunnels constructed by Hezekiah. What happens now is anyone's guess – will the tunnel mysteriously be filled in or will it be properly excavated and adequately funded in a politically sensitive area, in the West Bank.