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Last week Archaeologist Amadeo Maiuri of the National Museum in Naples formally opened to the public a partially excavated Baiae. During 1,500 years, many feet of soil had crept down the slope or been nudged down by earthquakes. When this was dug away, some of the splendors of the gaudy resort emerged fairly intact. Facing the sea are 300 yards of villas and terraces. Some of their walls are still covered with paintings of nymphs and satyrs. Two marble and ceramic staircases lead to the upper terraces. Other finds: shower rooms, sculptures of amazons and a Venus, a small...
...Queen. "The Greeks wrote all the histories," says an academic proverb, "and gave themselves all the breaks." During their peak, the Greeks described western Europe as inhabited chiefly by unseemly savages. This ancient triumph of propaganda was somewhat damaged recently when Rene Joffroy, professor of philosophy and an ardent archaeologist, dug into a Celtic tomb near Chatillon-sur-Seine in eastern France...
Sweden's King Gustaf VI, an avid amateur archaeologist, spent a whole day at the Valo High Seat diggings and acted as excited as a schoolboy. When he left, he gave Archaeologist Holmquist a rousing kick in the seat of the pants: the good old Swedish way of wishing him the best of luck in his follow-up diggings...
...amateur archaeologist ever since he was a boy in the Ozarks, 69-year-old Digger Hancock showed his visitor an array of calcified nuts, leaves and bone fragments. Paleontologist Simpson was fascinated by a giant (450 lbs.), two-tusked hunk of elephant skull which the ex-mailman had dug up twelve years before. Hancock thought he had found the remains of a Tetrabelodon, an early elephant that had roamed the Northwest during the Pliocene period, some 5,000,000 years earlier. Cautiously, Expert Simpson disagreed. To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant...
Each year the digging fever grows. Archaeologist Emil Haury of the University of Arizona gets a stream of valuable finds from construction men, Indians and soldiers on maneuvers. Recently he was asked to speak before a meeting of the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association to tell them what their cowhands should look for while out on the range. Besides giving advice, the archaeologists make a plea: don't mess up a promising site. Tell the professionals. They'll help you and give you credit...