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During a geological survey in the Palouse River canyon in 1965, Washington State University Geologist Roald Fryxell and Archaeologist Richard Daugherty explained, a bulldozer they were using scraped bare some bone fragments. Forgetting their survey, they began digging carefully at the site and uncovered other bones, some animal and some that were finally identified in 1967 as human skull fragments. Still picking away in a 10-ft.-deep shaft last month, the scientists found two additional major skull fragments, finger and wrist bones, rib fragments, an eye socket and what is probably a leg bone, enabling them to confirm that...
...searching survey, UNESCO's Bernard Groslier, conservator of Angkor Wat, and Dutch Hydrologist Caesar Voute have now agreed, and next month will recommend a $3,000,000, seven-year restoration program. Indonesians see prompt UNESCO aid as their only hope. "The balance now is precarious," warns one Indonesian archaeologist. "The walls of Borobudur could fall down today, and they could fall down in 20 years. We can't predict...
...Plant Lady, as her fans call her, went on the air only seven months ago, she is already pulling 500 letters a week filled with questions as well as the remains of stricken leaves, buds and twigs. She doesn't mind picking through the "deb-ree"; as an archaeologist trained at the London School of Economics, she has been digging around in the ground for one purpose or another most of her adult life. The wife of Hugh Mencken, curator of European archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, she lives in a rambling clapboard house in suburban Boston...
Since the first discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the faded parchments of Qumran have provided extraordinary insights into the nature of Judaism at the time when Christianity was born. Now, Israeli Archaeologist Yigael Yadin has announced the discovery of a new scroll. Not only is it the longest so far discovered, but it may well prove to be the most important. Unlike the other parchments, which are either copies of Biblical texts or accounts of the history and practices of the Qumran community, the new scroll is a prophetic message, claiming to speak for God himself, that...
...Archaeologist Yadin, who is also a former Israeli Army Chief of Staff, was even more impressed by the parchment scrolls unearthed by his expedition. A portion of a scroll identical with one of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments enabled researchers to trace the origin of both documents to the first half of the 1st century. Says Yadin: "It conclusively disproves the views of some scholars who hold that the Dead Sea Scrolls are either not genuine or date only from medieval times...