Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Belgian Archaeologist Edmond Fouss has been excavating Roman and pre-Roman ruins near the village of Buzenol in southern Belgium. Three weeks ago his workers came on a wall of stone blocks apparently taken from a monument built in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. and made into a fortification. Many of them are carved, showing scenes of ancient provincial life. On one of them are a man and woman holding hands. Nude dancers gambol across another...
That Daphni is a starred stop for travelers is to the credit of French Archaeologist Gabriel Millet, who in 1893 persuaded Greek authorities to save what remained of Daphni's mosaics. The ancient monastery is now a museum, and its mosaics, cleaned and repaired last year, can be seen in something approaching their original freshness (see color page...
...Mediterranean coast between Acre and Lebanon, decided to build a coastal road to link their village with other communities. A bulldozer was at work slicing away the sand dunes when one day its driver noticed that he was grazing what seemed to be scorched pavement with jewel-encrusted slabs. Archaeologist Moshe Prausnitz, British-trained senior inspector of Israel's Department of Antiquities, arrived on the scene, found a loose layer of burned mosaic floor, and under that two layers of superb mosaic that seemed to be virtually undamaged...
Since then, with interruptions caused by war with Egypt and lack of funds. Archaeologist Prausnitz. 34. has uncovered the floor of a large church, part of what used to be a busy port town, probably called Nea Come in the days of Emperor Constantine. Christians broke their journey there on the road from Tyre to Caesarea...
Langer pointed out that the University is interested in "just an exchange of individual scholars rather than of formal delegations and will seek the same kind of normal interchange as it has with scholars of other countries." The University has already invited a Russian archaeologist to Cambridge, and expects him to spend four to six weeks here next winter...