Word: hanfmann
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Friends and family held a funeral service for Hanfmann, who was Hudson Professor of Archaeology Emeritus, in his Watertown home Saturday...
...Hanfmann, who retired in 1982, had taught at Harvard since his emigration from the Soviet Union...
George M. A. Hanfmann, a noted Harvard archaeologist who led the expedition that uncovered the largest known temple in the Roman world, died of a heart attack in Cambridge Thursday...
Albert M. Henrichs, professor of Greek and Latin, said Hanfmann was an outstanding archaeologist because of his enormous breadth of knowledge. "His knowledge of Greek art ranged from the archive period [800 B.C.] to the Byzantine period [500 A.D.]--an amount impossible to acquire today...
...Hanfmann knew that the real treasures lay beneath the earth, and he and his crew began at once with the task of digging, recording, mapping and photographing every relic from the Bronze Age to the present...