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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...
This anecdote is one of the more outrageous tales that British-born Archaeologist Brian Fagan records in this brisk and knowledgeable history of the plunder of Egypt. But it was only one of thousands of depredations, many carried out on a much grander scale. During the reign of Pasha Mohammed Ali (1805-1849), for example, one-quarter of the great Temple of Dendereh was quarried away by Egyptians to build a saltpeter factory. Ali also ordered the excavation of the exquisite Temple of Esneh because he wanted to use it as a secure munitions depot. Art collectors were scarcely better...
Stoic Brevity. Dame Agatha recalled that unhappy time with stoic brevity: "My husband found a young woman." In 1930, on a trip to the Middle East, she found Max Mallowan, 14 year her junior, who was excavating on the site of ancient Ur. "An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have," she noted before their 25th anniversary. "The older she gets, the more interested...