Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Britain and Israel are long inhabited lands whose soil is steeped in legend and salted with ancient relics. In both, the drama of the past waits only the educated spade of the archaeologist...
...were savages. On the narrow coastal plain of southern Israel stands a rounded mound 100 ft. high covering 50 acres. It is a "tell," a heap of debris, hiding the remains of an ancient city. Israel is lumpy with tells, but this one is more famous than most because Archaeologist William F. Albright...
...English - American his Travail by Sea end Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's-can be read for its wonderful period style and detail, but also as a curious psychological document of a man both brave and devious, mean and daring. As edited by Archaeologist-Author J. Eric S. Thompson, it makes a great story...
...this were really a detective story, it would be unfair to report that Ilona, the slinky Hungarian blonde, really has nothing to do with the plot, or to warn the reader about the sneaky German archaeologist who thinks he has found a piece of a Dead Sea Scroll. But the book is less a whodunit than a witty who-said-it-in Author Davey's phrase, a shakerful of "the martini of human kindness." Very dry, too, without unnecessary olives...
...essence of parable. To re-create the past as past is merely archaeology or entertainment, or both. Author Mary (The Last of the Wine) Renault's The King Must Die (a midsummer Book-of-the-Month Club choice) is both, but she is a better literary archaeologist than an entertainer. Her myth is the Theseus legend and she is all too faithful...