Word: fakhariyeh
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While digging into the wars of long-dead peoples, it is annoying to archeologists to be bothered by the wars of the living. The University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute has an expedition now at work in Tell Fakhariyeh in northern Syria, a great mound (tell means mound) which they suppose to be the site of a city that nourished 1,500 years B. c., and which later was a walled Roman camp. With World War II continually threatening the eastern Mediterranean, the diggers...
...Oriental Institute had no less than twelve expeditions probing the rich antiquities of the Near East, and its director, the late, great James Henry Breasted, scurried around from camp to camp by airplane. Now in this area the Institute has only one expedition, the McEwan party at Tell Fakhariyeh. War is not the only reason for this; another reason is diminished income...
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