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Archaeologists believe they have discovered a 2,000-year-old burial cave of the Maccabees, a clan of Jewish warriors who led a revolt against a Syrian king that is still celebrated today with the feast of Hanukkah. The find, first uncovered by a tractor breaking ground on a highway project 19 miles northwest of Jerusalem, appears to confirm ancient Jewish accounts of the clan, also known as the Hasmoneans, a spokeswoman for the Antiquities Authority said today. "It's a very important find," says TIME science writer Michael Lemonick. "Over and over in the last few years, archaeologists have...
Archaeologists believe they have discovered a 2,000-year-old burial cave of the Maccabees, a clan of Jewish warriors who led a revolt against a Syrian king that is still celebrated today with the feast of Hanukkah. The find, first uncovered by a tractor breaking ground on a highway project 19 miles northwest of Jerusalem, appears to confirm ancient Jewish accounts of the clan, also known as the Hasmoneans, a spokeswoman for the Antiquities Authority said today. "It's a very important find," says TIME science writer Michael Lemonick. "Over and over in the last few years, archaeologists have...
Artis B. Spears, chair of the Cambridge Election Commission, said this veritable feast of important issues has not energized the city's 40,100 registered voters. Spears predicts a voter turnout of approximately 40 percent...
...leaders assemble in New York City this week to celebrate the U.N.'s formal 50th birthday, the occasion augurs more than traffic gridlock unlike any that Manhattan has ever seen. Outside of the champagne parties at Turtle Bay, site of the U.N. headquarters, the anniversary stands to produce a feast of cynicism about the visions of 1945. From this angle, the organization's ambitions look overblown and its bureaucratic arthritis embarrassing. As fashion statement, the U.N. is growing scandalously demode...
...have long catered to the eat-and-art urge, as the stalagmites of chewing gum and Jujyfruits on the floor of the local Googolplex will attest to future archaeologists. In the past decade, producers of live shows merged foodomania with Disney-style theme attractions (Medieval Times, King Henry's Feast) to create that curiosity known as environmental theater. Song of Singapore was set in a lavish nightclub in 1941. For Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding you went to church, then to a restaurant. When Tamara came to New York, visitors wandered through an armory and were fed by the chefs...