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...full-dress expedition followed and attacked a promising mound called Beycesultan on the headwaters of the Meander* River. First find was archaeological peanuts: a Byzantine town about 2,000 years younger than Arzawa. Under the Byzantine ruins, the diggers uncovered a row of small houses that had been destroyed by fire. Mixed in the ruins were the telltale "champagne glasses." The first bit of Arzawa had come into the sunlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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