Word: archaeologists
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...hero. Glimpsed in old age, he has taken refuge from the Romans in what remains of the religious community of Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found), and pauses to put down his last testament before he is killed. Enter, 1,900 years later, a British archaeologist named Mallory, who finds the scroll and takes it back to England for translation. Judas' gospel, as might be expected, contradicts nearly everything the other four evangelists have set down. Mirroring such recent pop events as Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as more serious re cent theories in Jesus guessing (especially...
...statues, still covered with some of the decorative paint used by the Greeks to embellish their marble carvings, were found only eleven inches below ground in a field 25 miles southeast of Athens by a team of diggers headed by Archaeologist Efthymios Mastrokostas. After discovering some ancient burial urns, they came upon the figures of two young people, lying side by side facing each other. Such treasures, Mastrokostas is convinced, could only have been placed in the earth for safekeeping in a hour of peril...
...ended with his death at 18, could have secured immortality for this shadowy boy-king. King Tut owes his fame to the accident that grave robbers never looted his tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It remained intact until Nov. 26,1922, when an English archaeologist named Howard Carter chipped through a door at the end of a rubble-filled passage and thrust a candle into the darkness beyond. "Do you see anything?" asked Lord Carnarvon, his partner. "Yes, wonderful things," Carter stuttered...
...appearance at that time of what seemed to be a new and brightly glowing star-probably as luminous as a quarter moon and visible even during full daylight-may have sufficiently moved a primitive sky-gazer to scrawl or carve his impressions on a cave wall. And if an archaeologist should ever find such a drawing, its age could be determined by using radioactive "clocks" and other dating methods on other objects at the site. Once that was done, scientists would know more precisely the time of Gum's celestial spectacular...
...years before his time. But the specific details and descriptions that Plato gives indicate events that modern science shows to have occurred in and around Santorini at the height of the Age of Bronze. They fit everything that is known concerning the final bloom and tragic end of what Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans arbitrarily labeled "Minoan" civilization. "Minoan" and "Atlantean" may well have been the same thing...