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...once held oil or wine snipped from the Eastern Mediterranean about A.D. 500. Since only a rich king or warlord could have imported such luxuries at the time, Camelot cultists were quick to speculate that Arthur's legendary headquarters were buried somewhere near by. Led by famed archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British scholars eventually mustered a "Camelot Research Committee" to raise cash and reconnoiter the 18-acre site...
...believe there was a King Arthur," announced Mortimer Wheeler. Well, so do a lot of other kids. Only this was Sir Mortimer Wheeler, the eminent British archaeologist, talking, and he went on to say that he thinks he's even found Arthur's Camelot. It's in South Cadbury, 100 miles southwest of London, where Sir Mortimer's diggers came up with a hoard of "Arthurian matter" on the site of an old castle. No armor or swords or pennants, mind you, but bits of pottery, some iron knives, and a pin dating back...
...trip related to his work, perhaps hoping that at least part of it will come back as a tax deduction. One example is James Purvis, 33, Boston University religions professor, who went to work on the excavation of an ancient Canaanite fortress in Israel, under the supervision of Theologian-Archaeologist Nelson Glueck. Purvis, who says that he left behind "three angry children and an equally angry wife," earns his keep by arising each day at 5 a.m. to begin digging in the broiling sun with the other Biblical scholars. He gets along on a kibbutz diet of cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs...
Died. Pierre Montet, 80, internationally respected French archaeologist who, after finding the world's oldest alphabetical inscription at a Lebanon site in 1922, went on to spend 20 years excavating at the Nile Delta town of Tanis, onetime capital of ancient Egypt, uncovering through the years three mummies of Pharaohs from the 21st and 22nd dynasties, their gold death masks and silver sarcophagi still intact; of pulmonary congestion; in Paris...
...Archaeologist Marinatos now believes that the latest geological findings explain the apparent discrepancy in his 1939 theory. In a paper recently presented at an archaeological conference in Canea, Crete, he explains that the first eruption destroyed all life on Thera around 1520 B.C., but had little effect on Crete, where the Minoan culture continued to flourish...