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Delayed by World War II, the redevelopment work was reinitiated with the construction of three apartment buildings on an adjacent site in 1962. This year the city finally completed plans to finish the project; excavation was begun in February. Among the archaeologists on hand were Professors Maurice Euzennat, 40, who also serves as director of antiquities of Provence and Corsica for French Minister of Culture André Malraux, and 30-year-old François Salviat. As the power shovels bit into the rocky grey soil, more and more of Massilia's fortifications began to appear. To Euzennat...
...Euzennat and Salviat had won the support of Malraux. Unmoved, Marseille's mayor, Gaston Defferre, claimed that the city would lose 2,000 jobs and millions of dollars if construction stopped. He offered to rebuild the walls elsewhere, but the scientists balked. "If you transfer these walls, you destroy them...
...walls, a sewer network and a central flagstone street. Buried within the fortifications, which are at least 460 ft. by 130 ft., were catapult balls of apparently Roman origin, along with building blocks bearing Greek monograms and pottery fragments, including one that dates from the 5th century B.C. Said Euzennat, who believes the find as important as the ruins of Carthage: "You have to go to Syracuse to find something comparable...
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