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...discovery goes back to 1921, when some British soldiers, digging in during a skirmish with Arab tribesmen, found, fragments of old buildings in the Syrian desert sand. Excited archaeologists dug deeper, came upon the Syrian city of Dura-Europos, which in about A.D. 250 had been a garrisoned outpost of the Roman Empire, athwart the main trade route between Antioch and Seleucia. Dura had a large Jewish community and a sizable synagogue. On the synagogue's walls the excavators found murals illustrating Old Testament stories, with certain Talmudic touches added...
...first full report on the murals, prepared by Archaeologist Carl H. Kraeling, director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, and a team of Yale experts, will be published this month (Yale University; $15). Ironically, the pictures were preserved by what probably seemed to Dura's Jews to be their desecration. The commander of the city's Roman garrison, faced with the threat of an enemy attack, did his best to prepare the city against Persian siege tactics. To keep the city walls from collapsing even if they were undermined, the commander ordered the street nearest...
...hitherto unsuspected Jewish art may in turn have influenced the Christians of the catacombs. Except for representations of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, most of the earliest catacomb wall paintings illustrate scenes from the Old rather than the New Testament-scenes that may first have been rendered in the Dura synagogue's murals...
Special treatment was given to three, notably the most hideously bitten victim of all: Golam Khazayi, a boy of six, who had bites on the head too numerous to count. The wolf's massive jaws had chomped right through his skull, and the teeth, piercing the dura mater (parchment-like covering) had dripped rabies virus directly into the brain. Golam already had contracted meningitis through the head wounds. He got penicillin as well as a special course of serum every two days, plus vaccine...
...kind in the country. Designed and supervised by Dr. (Lieut. Commander) George W. Hyatt, it has already supplied needed parts of human anatomy, whether soft tissue or bone, for more than 700 patients. If a Bethesda surgeon wants a piece of bone, skin, artery, fascia (muscle sheathing) or dura (brain covering), he can find it in bottles neatly stacked on the first floor. For a long time, the great problem was to keep the tissues fresh. Ordinary refrigeration and thawing made them useless. The Navy got around this by ultra-rapid freeze-drying; now it vacuum-packs them so that...