Word: ancient
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...last 25 years, teams of scholars from Harvard and Cornell have sifted through the remains of the opulent eastern capital at its site just southeast of ancient Troy. This week, the Fogg Art Museum winds up an exhibition and lecture series celebrating the Silver Jubilee of the Sardis exploration, an ongoing project sponsored jointly by the Fogg and by Cornell University...
Since that time, archaeologists, historians and architects have descended upon the site to dig up the foundations of the city, restore ancient buildings to their former grandeur, and unearth thousands upon thousands of ceramic remains, coins, and other artifacts. Fifty thousand photographs fill the files of their Harvard office, dozens of volumes fill the shelves, and hundreds of drawings and water colors have been made of the structures and relics of the past...
David Mitten, Loeb Professor of Ancient Art and Archaeology, went to Sardis in 1959 as a graduate student, and has returned almost every summer since. He describes the excavation as a kind of "ongoing seminar," where the research and finds are the subjects of constant discussion and the collaboration between the Americans and their Turkish colleagues is stimulating and rewarding, warding...
...near-flawless checking game brought the Eagles their fifth consecutive game in a Bright Center both as crowded and quiet as Lamont Library. The visitors observed the ancient axiom--go for the man, not the puck--and generally kept the Crimson at a safe distance from goalie Scott Gordon...
...military's clout reflects in part the ancient obsession with security of oft-invaded Russia and in part a cold judgment by the Politburo that armed might commands both the fear and respect that give the modern Soviet Union its best chance of extending its ideological and political influence. The practical effect is that the marshals and admirals get whatever weapons they want, never mind the cost...