Word: basalt
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...until 200 B.C. Egyptians, Israelites, Aramaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians in turn laid siege to the city and built Hazor's fortifications anew. On various levels of the tell (an archaeological mound), Yadin has unearthed the remains of Solomon's mighty city gates, three separate Canaanite temples, basalt slabs engraved with hands praying to the sun, and an Israelite temple similar to Solomon's but built 300 years before his time. From the ruins, Yadin was able to establish the date of Joshua's conquest of Canaan as the late 13th century B.C. At one level...
...painted metal cutout bust currently on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art as part of its Picasso sculpture show (TIME, Oct. 20), for which Picasso used a pony-tailed girl named Sylvette David. The N.Y.U. version will be cast in black Norwegian basalt aggregate with a "skin" of buff-colored cement by Norway's Carl Nesjar. Nesjar will etch the skin of the sculpture by sandblasting, to reveal the basalt underneath in lines that will duplicate Picasso's brushstrokes. When completed, Sylvette will be half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx...
...Rome in his neoclassic columns and pediments. Wedgwood, too, plunked for the neoclassic against rococo excesses, writing in 1769: "Elegant simplicity-I shall more than ever make that idea a leading principle." He glazed red figures similar to Etruscan pots onto the matte surfaces of his ironlike black basalt ware. Then he invented what is Wedgwood's most famous ceramic, jasper ware, whose white classical relief on blue body still accounts for a quarter of the firm's output...
Atop one of Jerusalem's olive-tree-cluttered ridges stands one of man's most unusual monuments to the past. Against the skyline, a white-tiled dome swells from a watery moat to contrast with a black basalt wall aflicker with flames. These dramatic structures mark the new home, dedicated last week, for Israel's collection of Dead Sea Scrolls (see opposite...
...test; they constructed a 2-in. cylindrical drill bit of molybdenum, and to their surprise their very first demonstration was a success. With a 5-kw. generator, they heated the face of the bit to 2,190°F, then forced it down against a specimen of hard basalt rock. Like a hot pick thrusting through ice, the bit ate into the rock at the rate of 50 ft. a day-a rate that the experimenters figured could be doubled by heating the bit to a still higher temperature and by putting a little more pressure on the drill from...