Word: agora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greece. Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear of Princeton has been directing diggers in Greece since 1911, in Athens since 1931. He has laid bare the ancient Athenian agora (market place), brought to light a multitude of priceless relics (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Last month, 50 ft. below the site of the Senate, near the Acropolis, he came upon a Mycenaean cemetery which he dated at 1500 B. C. Surrounded by wine jars, remains of food and clothing, many of the skeletons were almost perfectly preserved. U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh, something of an archeologist himself, thought the find might...
armed, and wearing a breastplate decorated in high relief with symbolical figures, was discovered fallen into a massive water channel which runs down the center of the agora, and is covered, by large slabs. The statue, however, is so large that is is believed that it fell where it stood, and as it is too risky to move the new find, the statue will remain where it is until the house above it has been torn down...
...this statue was said by Pausanias to stand in front of the Stoa of Zeus, the topography of the agora has been pretty well defined, and the main street that ran through it located...