Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more romantic figure emerged from World War I than the shadowy desert raider in flowing white burnoose known as Lawrence of Arabia. Here was a pint-sized Oxford archaeologist who could outride the fiercest Bedouin warrior, a galloping ghost who had blown up 79 bridges along the Turkish-held Hejaz Railway (and mourned he had not made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about...
...informal dinner meeting to inaugurate Radcliffe's experimental program. Among the first group of part-time scholars appointed in June are three historians, a lawyer, a musician, a philosopher, two poets, two painters, specialists in English, Swedish and Spanish literature, an art historian, a political scientist, an archaeologist and an educational psychologist. They range in age from the late twenties to the late fifties. Six of the scholars hold the A.M. degree, while seven have earned the Ph.D. as well. The rest have done graduate study except for one who has no formal college training...
Accent (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). A tour of the ruins of the Roman seaport Ostia Antica, with Yale Archaeologist-Classicist Dr. Frank Brown...
...narrow ledge of the high Andes, 75 miles northwest of the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco, a handful of Peruvians and Americans met last week to dedicate a bronze plaque to U.S. Archaeologist Hiram Bingham and the mysterious lost city he discovered 50 years ago. Some experts believe that parts of the city, which Bingham named Machu Picchu (Old Peak), are 60 centuries old, which would make it 1,000 years older than ancient Babylon. More recently, if its ruins are interpreted correctly, it was at once an impregnable fortress and a majestic royal capital of an exiled civilization...
Tricky Business. Archaeologists raised the alarm when they realized the temple's peril, and several schemes were suggested to keep the water away from Ramses' memorial. One faction wanted to cover the temple with a watertight dome, another to protect it with a curving cofferdam. Both dome and cofferdam could be built, but they would be difficult to maintain and would dwarf the temple. The most attractive scheme, conceived by Italian Archaeologist Piero Gazzola, was to cut the whole temple free of the surrounding rock and lift it with 308 hydraulic jacks to a new place above...