Word: globs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bibby did not forget Bahrein. In 1953 he persuaded his director, Dr. Peter Glob, to lead an expedition there, with himself as second in command. During the first season they attacked the fascinating mounds. The burial chambers had been robbed, but the Danes still found gold and ivory ornaments. Then they turned to searching for the city where the dead in the graves had lived...
...north end of Bahrein Island is a ruined Portuguese fort and near it a mound 40 ft. high, 2,400 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide. Dr. Glob (who, says Bibby, has "a fine eye for country") picked it out, hired native laborers to cut a trench into it. Done properly, this is slow work: for years the archaeologists worked on the mound. Piled in layers were vertical walls and stamped clay floors all mixed with bits of pottery and copper...