Word: 6th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Information on trade and industry in Lydian kingdom of Croesus, in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., came from excavation of the Lydian bazaar in a great trench south of the modern highway. Heaps of ashes lying in a circle, moulds with bits of bronze, and actual bronze objects showed that large-scale bronze casting was carried...
Also uncovered in the Lydian Bazaar were three inscriptions from the 6th century B.C. incised on plain pots. Experts believe the language is Carian, that of a people who lived south of the Lydians and whom the Lydians employed as mercenaries...
...Ruge (Rommel's sometime naval attache), and dozens of American officers. Drawing on his resources, Darryl Zanuck has also called in 22 ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the ist Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. 5°5th Infantry, and the ist Battle Group of the U.S. 6th Infantry (authorized by the Department of Defense). A direct telephone line to the Army groups' headquarters in Germany is kept open in case they are needed in Berlin...
...certain that the Communists did not try to enforce their 100-meter rule. West Berliners remained free to travel the border streets as they pleased. Overhead, U.S. helicopters kept constant watch. Next day, when one water cannon fired a stream at a crowd of West Berliners, G.I.s of the 6th Infantry Regiment, who were also splattered, reached grimly for the tear gas grenades that they carried conveniently on their shoulder straps. The squirting stopped abruptly...
...coast of Attica, Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designs-the first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath...