It was mid-morning, and it was already really hot.

Eric Klein was chipping away with a little handpick at an archaeological site in northern Israel.

He was a college student on his first overseas dig.

The heat was getting to him.

Suddenly, his pick struck something green and kind of small that flew up into the air. And everything went into

slow motion. And so as this green thing is twirling in the air because I had hit it and it flipped

up, I thought, oh, a petrified monkey's paw. That's cool. And then before it hit the ground, I thought,

wait, a petrified monkey's paw?

That makes no sense.

There weren't any monkeys here in antiquity.

And then I picked it up, and it turned out to be a little bronze kind of a statue.

It actually goes at the end of a wooden arm on a chair. It was a more than 2,000-year-old statue of the Greek

god Pan. You know, the little guy that's got the double flutes that trapes us through the forest

with the animals following him. It was beginner's luck. And for a long time in his career,

it would remain the single most interesting thing he'd ever found on an archaeological dig. By the way, you'll hear what replaced it later. 30 years after the original finding, he saw that statue of Pan on display at a museum. He took a selfie with it. I just love the idea that you have the kind of brain where it's something ambiguous and green flies up in the air and you think, petrified monkey paw.

I know.

A little crazy, right?

I please sunstroke.

That's all I can say.

I plead sunstroke.

I plead sunstroke. I'm Dan Heath, and this is what it's like to be.

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