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...many years, archaeologists believed that a sudden earthquake had devastated the island, or that it had been systematically conquered and destroyed by invaders from Greece. In 1939, Greek Archaeologist Spyridon Marinates suggested that the Minoan civilization had actually been destroyed around 1500 B.C. by falling ash and poisonous fumes from a volcanic eruption on the island of Thera (now called Santorin), 75 miles to the north. But the volcanic theory did not quite square with all the available facts; some of the pottery found on Crete, for example, had apparently been fashioned as late as 1450 B.C., 50 years after...
...Arabs brought some of these finds to Kando, the former Bethlehem cobbler who made himself an antiquities dealer by selling the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. Kando in turn alerted American archaeologists working in Israel, and Harvard's Frank M. Cross Jr. went to Israel to acquire and study the Samaritan finds. Now Archaeologist Cross knows more about ancient Samaritan history than does the remnant of the tribe that still survives...
...diggers uncovered the remains of a structure about 60 ft. by 20 ft., which contained two fireplaces. Scattered about were pieces of charred wood and the bones of rabbits, boars, Elephas antiquus (the ancestors of mammoths), deer antlers, stone carving tools, and even fossilized human excrement, which, the archaeologist says, is "extremely rare...
...Scandal, Hero Nino Manfredi, whose face is a blah-relief of middle-class mores, skillfully portrays a vacationing businessman who imagines an intrigue between his voluptuous young wife (Fulvia Franco) and a handsome archaeologist-until he gets a bizarre surprise. Manfredi is nearly matched by Monica Vitti, using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...
...intellectuals' new affluence is not confined to the scientists and economists. Archaeologist Nelson Glueck was recently asked to join the board of a Cincinnati insurance company. Philosophers and novelists are not exactly swamped with management job offers, but their salaries are higher, their lecture fees munificent, and, what with paperbacks, they not only can get anything published, but published for gold. Then there are the foundations. If one can't get a Guggenheim, one can always get a Ford, and if not a Ford, a Rockefeller. At the last meeting of the Northwestern University Finnegans Wake Society...