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Athens, like Jerusalem, is a city so rich in antiquity that an archaeologist-or anyone else-has only to dig to uncover treasures of a golden age gone by a few weeks ago, a crew of Athenian sewer diggers ripping up the pavement of Aeolou Street, in Athens' financial district, broke into a group of 30 ancient graves only six feet below street level. The find dated from about 500 B.C. Lifted reverently from the graves were many pyxides, the small, handsomely ornamented pottery jars in which women of the day kept cosmetics and other personal treasures. One pyxis...
...wildly disparate group of people, traveling the Mediterranean on a cruise ship called Europa, disembark in Crete to explore a labyrinth advertised as the mythic one of the fabled Minotaur. There is a lady missionary, a male medium, an archaeologist, an artist, a young girl clerk, and a jolly middle-aged couple who won the trip as a prize in a newspaper competition. A landslide cuts them off from the outside world. Several of them die, a few manage to return to everyday life, and two of them are transported to a peculiar, bucolic, almost supernatural existence in a valley...
...Iranian Archaeologist Ezat Negahban and his crew dig spectacular ancient artifacts out of a low mound in the fertile Goha Valley, 186 miles northwest of Teheran. By night, they stand guard against raiding peasants, crooked local officials and stealthy professional thieves. The round-the-clock duty is wearing but necessary, for the location is one of the richest in archaeological history, and the entire valley around the mound has gone digger-daffy. Peasants are even uprooting their vines and fruit trees in a frantic search for ancient gold...
...horizontal latticework of pipes is constructed about ten feet above the ground to be excavated. Hanging plumb lines from this metal checkerboard, the archaeologist marks the ground off into orderly squares, two meters on a side. As objects are uncovered, he records their position relative to this grid system...
...removed by hand--or, in the case of a fragile item, with a dental extractor--and tossed into a basket with three compartments: for bones, for flint, and for river stones and pebbles. The stones go to a geologist, the bones to a paleontologist, and the flint to an archaeologist. The pale botanist takes a sample of dirt from eastrata, which he centrifuges to recover the pollen grains of plants which grad around the rock shelter thousands years...