Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shelf and a half in a borrowed room" is all that Oxford Archaeologist Max Mallowan remembers the Iraq Museum as being back in 1925. But the surge of Arab nationalism that made Iraq independent after World War I carried with it pride in a past that goes back 90 centuries, and included such mighty capitals as Babylon, Nineveh and Ur. In 1936 laws were passed to safeguard Iraq's antiquities, which for over a century had been filtering out to the world's great museums. And to insure that relics unearthed in the future would be properly housed...
...account of the archaeological dig at the rock of Masada on the Dead Sea, where, almost 2,000 years ago, 960 Jews died when the Romans breeched the walls of their aerie. Yadin has himself seen battle; he was Israel's Chief of Staff (1948-52) before turning archaeologist. Totally engrossing...
Time to Flee. To see such sights today in Herculaneum, writes Joseph Deiss, an amateur archaeologist and vice-director of the American Academy in Rome, is to "walk 2,000 years into the past." The world is more familiar with what happened to neighboring Pompeii on the same day that Herculaneum died; erupting on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius buried Pompeii in a sudden fiery rain of stone and ash, entombing nearly one-tenth of its 20,000 citizens and inflicting terrible damage on the city. Herculaneum, however, was more fortunate. Granted time by the wind, which blew west toward...
...once held oil or wine snipped from the Eastern Mediterranean about A.D. 500. Since only a rich king or warlord could have imported such luxuries at the time, Camelot cultists were quick to speculate that Arthur's legendary headquarters were buried somewhere near by. Led by famed archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British scholars eventually mustered a "Camelot Research Committee" to raise cash and reconnoiter the 18-acre site...
...trip related to his work, perhaps hoping that at least part of it will come back as a tax deduction. One example is James Purvis, 33, Boston University religions professor, who went to work on the excavation of an ancient Canaanite fortress in Israel, under the supervision of Theologian-Archaeologist Nelson Glueck. Purvis, who says that he left behind "three angry children and an equally angry wife," earns his keep by arising each day at 5 a.m. to begin digging in the broiling sun with the other Biblical scholars. He gets along on a kibbutz diet of cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs...