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...assemble from these sources innumerable single facts, and arrange them in meaningful relationships, requires several types of minds. The information-packed expert on Lower Slobbovian economic history has his place in such a setup, and so has the lawyer or the archaeologist who is trained to draw conclusions from incomplete and obscure evidence. The CIA has dozens more of both types than it has of spies, agents or cloak & dagger...
...must have happened about 1500 B.C., during the Mycenaean period, the dimly-known dawn of Greek history. So legendary are the Seven that to dig for the graves at Eleusis might seem as unrealistic as to dig in Yorkshire for the grave of Robin Hood. But last week Archaeologist George E. Mylonas of Washington University. St. Louis, announced that he had actually found the graves...
Eleusis is now the main base of the Greek air force, and the whistling roar of the jets competes with the racket of a rock-crushing plant. Greek Archaeologist Mylonas was not disturbed by such distraction. He told his workers where to dig, and three weeks ago one of them hit an ancient tomb a yard below the surface and only 50 ft. from the rumbling rock crusher. More digging uncovered five more tombs-just the right number to fit both the legend and the description of Pausanias. The bones they contained were poorly preserved, but late Mycenaean vases proved...
...Pompeii," said Archaeologist Maiuri, "we see the Romans' daily life. At Baiae we see how the Roman aristocracy lived and lusted...
...northern Iraq is still inhabited during the winter months by about 40 Kurds and their flocks and herds. Last year Solecki became interested in the debris on the cave's floor. Back at Shanidar early this year, financed by a Fulbright grant and surrounded by fascinated Kurds, Archaeologist Solecki carefully dug a square shaft in the promising deposit. The top layers were modern. Just below, he found tools and fragments of pottery from the "historic period" when Shanidar belonged to the Persians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians or the Turks. Below this layer, metal relics gradually disappeared. Stone tools took...