Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complex of underground corridors, chambers and cubicles covers an area of 157 ft. by 89 ft. and has at least three levels. Its walls are decorated with an extraordinary number of pictures. "Nothing like this," said Jesuit Archaeologist Antonio Ferrua, who headed the digging, "has ever been found in an early Christian cemetery." Some of the paintings show episodes from the life of Christ (the Sermon on the Mount) and from Judaeo-Christian legend (Lot and his daughters), while others are wholly pagan. Cleopatra is shown in a flower garden, holding an asp to her breast. A cubicle is devoted...
...Word to the Audience. In London, Cambridge Archaeologist Dr. Glyn Daniel, 41, took his place as M.C. on a TV quiz show, studied the sheaf of poisoned arrows he was asking a panel of experts to identify, remarked moodily: "I should like to kill a few million people, and most of them would be viewers...
Whenever U.S. archaeologists succeed in extending backwards the length of time that human beings have lived in North America, their European colleagues go them one better. Archaeologist James A. Ford recently reported traces of human settlement in northern Louisiana that he reckons to be 2,700 years old. Last week Professor Alberto Carlo Blanc announced the discovery of man-made tools near Rome "over 200,000 years...
...very much upset," he says. "I don't remember whether or not I recited the words well. But I remember referring to everybody, saying, 'Ego vos absolvo.' There was only one Protestant aboard-I think he was a German archaeologist. All he asked was whether the absolution was valid for him. 'Yes,' I answered, 'but everything depends on whether you have faith...
Meanwhile, in Palestine, a few miles from where Christianity was born, Dominican de Vaux, Archaeologist Harding and an international group of scientists and scholars are busy unraveling the crumbling scrolls, piecing together the tiny fragments, correlating texts. Current reports from Jerusalem tell of an important discovery that is still top secret, pending full evaluation. The work of the next ten to 50 years may open unsuspected possibilities for modern man, in the words of Dr. Cross, to "become 'contemporaries of Christ' in historical understanding and, with God's grace, also in the knowledge of faith...