Word: assyria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of that gold turned out to be priceless jewelry draped around the skeleton of a young princess named Yabahya, tentatively identified as the daughter of one of Assyria's most renowned and feared kings, Sargon II. Nearby, still more jewelry and gold ornaments were piled. Mingled with the dried bones were dozens of delicately sculpted gold rosettes, scattered like flowers over the body of the dead princess...
Professor Piotr Steinkeller, who, like William Moran, is a specialist in Assyria, was also critical of the sensational nature of the charges. "I'm surprised this was so blown up and received so much publicity," he said...
Andrew W. Mellon Professor on the Humanities William L. Moran, 64, a specialist on ancient Assyria, and Suzanne D. Moran, 61, administrator of the First Congregational Church in Cambridge, were charged with sexually assaulting their grandchildren from June 1985 to June 1987, said Thomas Samoluk, spokes-person for Middlesex County District Attorney Scott Harshbarger...