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...congenital deformity of the spine, at first played a solitary game of croquet. He complained that no one would play with him. Soon he learned the game's rules, found some partners, smilingly started to talk about what he wants to be when he grows up (astronomer or archaeologist...
...convenience of tourists, and recently, the workmen demolished an ancient wall, shoveled away a layer of sand and exposed a 150-yd. row of massive limestone blocks, each 15 ft. long and tightly sealed with pink gypsum. It looked like some sort of pavement, but Kamal el Malakh, Egyptian archaeologist in charge of the pyramids, suspected that the stones might be the roof of a long underground chamber. The tomb of Pharaoh Cheops had never been found. It might just possibly, he thought, lie under the row of stones...
Ever since 1900, when Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans first discovered the hundreds of clay tablets in the ruins of King Minos' great palace at Knossos, Crete, scholars have been puzzling over a mystery. Some of the tablets bear a type of script that Evans named Linear A. Others bear symbols that indicate another language, which Evans called Linear B. What sort of language is it, and what do the tablets say? For half a century, scholars have been guessing...
...Excited archaeologists from all parts of the world trooped to Eleusis, Greece, last summer to see one of the most litigious excavations of recent years. Archaeologist George E. Mylonas reported he had actually found the grave of Prince Polynecices and his five friends who had been killed, according to Greek mythology, in the attempt to capture the throne of Thebes from Polynecices's brother. The big controversy arose when Mylonas mentioned he had discovered the graves from directions written by the ancient geographer Pausanias who lived about 1,700 years after Polynecices...
Married. John Boynton Priestley, 58, popular novelist (The Good Companions, Festival) and playwright (Home Is Tomorrow) ; and Author-Archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes, 42 (A Land), lately his playwriting collaborator; he for the third time, she for the second; in London...