Separated at Birth?	"The Great Archaeological Look-Alike Contest" January 1, 2000

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Heinrich Schliemann: Famed (and defamed) excavator of Mycenae and Troy rumored to have salted his trenches with artifacts (Corbis-Bettmann)

Colonel Mustard: Famed (and defamed) Parker Brothers character, rumored to have done it in the conservatory with a lead pipe (Parker Bros.)

Eiteljorg Crest: fawned over by art historians with big vocabularies, it sports the hairdo of Nigerian debutants (courtesy Harrison Eiteljorg/photo by Robert Wallace)

Queen Amidala: fawned over by computer nerds with braces, she sports the hairdo of Naboo royalty (Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Kleobis and Biton: worshipers of Hera (Mark Rose)

Yanni and Michael Bolton (pre-snip): worshipers of hair (Virgin Records; Columbia Records)

Ahmose I: showed Nubia who's boss (from G.E. Smith, The Royal Mummies, 1912)

Rudy Giuliani: showed pushcart vendors, taxi drivers, homeless people, and artists who's boss (courtesy the Mayor's Press Office)

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