Word: dustier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean François Champollion, who unriddled the ancient babble of the Rosetta Stone; of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who dug up King Tut, and of several more. The biographical sketches carry the story of archeology nicely along, and if the atmosphere of the book is a bit dustier than that of Microbe Hunters, it is not so much Ceram's fault as the fault of his subject...