Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pronunciation of his initials), only son of a Reformed Church pastor, had a lonely, bookish boyhood in Basel. His father began teaching him Latin at six. In adolescence he wallowed in the German romantics. He read Greek and Sanskrit and steeped himself in philosophy. He thought of becoming an archaeologist. To please his father he took up medicine-and began digging into the minds of patients...
Only a few dim clues remain to suggest where the great emperor lived. But early this year Professor Gianfilippo Carettoni, a government archaeologist, started searching for Augustus' house on the Palatine. Diggers soon uncovered the tops of hefty brick foundation piers mingled with older stone walls outlining two rooms...
Bridal Rights. The Bar Kochba explorers-160 soldiers, students and kibbutz volunteers-had been led to the desert badlands just west of the Dead Sea by Archaeologist and former General Yigael Yadin. They found a treasure their first day at the diggings. In the same bat-infested, three-chambered Cave of Letters where he had discovered the rebel chieftain's papyri orders just a year ago. Archaeologist Yadin found some 60 more documents in a goatskin and a leather...
...From "Winckelmann," an essay on the German art historian and archaeologist. -Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield...
Died. Dr. Karl Lehmann, 66, German-born U.S. archaeologist who spent 22 years digging in the marble-littered Aegean isle of Samothrace, turned up a host of notable finds, including the missing right hand of the Louvre's famed Winged Victory; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland...