Word: archaeologist
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Historians have enough trouble with these questions. Laymen are usually bewildered by synoptic accounts of dynasties and empires. For both professionals and the purely curious, Archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes (The World of the Past} now provides a brilliant series of answers- a chart of all the ancients whose past is our prologue. Along the way, she illuminates a great many contemporary geopolitical attitudes...
...luck that the tomb of Tutankhamun, pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 B.C., escaped the predations of grave robbers over the millenniums. Largely luck too that British Archaeologist Howard Carter found the royal tomb in 1922 after 15 years of fruitless searching through the sere Valley of the Kings. Perhaps the timing was also lucky when J. Carter Brown, director of Washington's National Gallery of Art, began negotiating with Egyptian authorities in 1974 for a U.S. showing of the tomb's contents: a wave of pro-American feeling was just sweeping Cairo. In any case, millions...
Died. Sir Mortimer Wheeler, 85, pioneer archaeologist, author, lecturer, star of TV shows like The Grandeur That Was Rome, and, as the Manchester Guardian once sniffed, "Secretary to the British Academy when he's not on television"; in Leatherhead, England. Wheeler supervised excavations in the Indus Valley of India and Pakistan and over a wide area of Roman Britain. He believed in King Arthur, and in southwestern England his diggers unearthed bits of pottery and knives they thought came from Camelot...
Mary D. Leakey, S.Sc.D., archaeologist. Garry Trudeau, L.H.D., creator of Doonesbury. Yale's "image," as the hucksters would say, will never be the same after what you have done to your classmates and your President...
...Thai archaeologists knew as long ago as the early '60s that unusual and ancient pottery had been found in Ban Chiang. But it was not until 1968, when a visitor brought some of the shards to the University of Pennsylvania's University Museum for testing, that scientists began to take the site seriously. Two types of dating methods indicated that the pottery was fired around 3600 B.C. That discovery led to a long-term archaeological investigation of the area by an expedition headed by Pennsylvania Archaeologist Chester Gorman and Pisit Charoenwongsa (called Dr. Pisit), curator of the National...