Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warner brought back with him many photographs and stone rubbings of the Chinese characters of the cave, but did not rob it of any of its contents. He said...
...Cave Untouched...
...Pelliot, the famous Frenchman, had explored this route before, so that we hardly expected to discover anything new. One cave, however, that we found behind a shrine, was filled with nearly perfect carving which covered every inch of the surface. It was very early Buddhist work, and consequently most important. A statue in the cave, of one of Buddha's attendant gods, is one of the few things I have brought back with me and, by all odds, the greatest single prize of the trip...
Palestine. Prof. R. A. Stewart Macalister, continuing his excavations at Jerusalem (TIME, Dec. 31), found a cave with a shaft leading down to a spring, the significance of which was explained by Prof. James A. Montgomery, of the University of Pennsylvania. It was part of one of the most amazing engineering triumphs of ancient times ?the water system of Jerusalem. In the reign of David and before, this very arid region was believed to have been wholly dependent for water on the Spring of Gihon, near the base of the hill on which the ancient city was built. Pumps...
...seating 125,000 people and encompassing a huge sports field and a track with a 220-yard "straightaway" has been built. Beside this there is a 50-acre amusement park, also said to be the largest ever constructed, containing "a bewildering assortment of roller coasters, chute the chutes, 'cave of the winds' and scores of other mechanical contrivances beloved by children and the less serious grown...