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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20080618
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Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI, India, June 18 -- I once read a silly fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip... as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of. Horace Walpole, 1754.

Archaeology has a long tradition of celebrating a select number of men and a few women as discoverers who, unlike the three princes of Serendip, found what they were in quest of - a tradition it shares with many other academic fields. This probably explains why in popular imagination as well, such individuals - from real ...

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