Word: herzfeld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native, had found a 1,000-ft. section of it still standing on pointed arches. Most ancient aqueduct ever discovered, it was at first mistaken for a "bridge" because the standing part spanned a river. Dr. Breasted's lieutenant in charge of the Persepolis expedition, Archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld of Germany, had more to report to his chief since the utensils, paintings and sculpture which he described last winter (TIME, Jan. 30). Cutting through a ridge to shift his railroad, Dr. Herzfeld came upon hundreds of cuneiform tablets in the Elamite (pre-Persian) language which he hoped would give...
Credit for the extensive excavations of Persepolis goes to Director James Henry Breasted of Chicago's Oriental Institute. He found the money to finance learned Professor Herzfeld and detach him from the University of Berlin. Professor Herzfeld, 53, has dug into ancient Persia for 30 years. The Shah is a personal friend, recently visited him at Persepolis...
...Herzfeld repaid the Oriental Institute last week with the publication of two items which struck an ecstatic cry from Director Breasted: "The discovery at Persepolis is one of the greatest and most important in the history of archeological research...
Item I: Two miles from Persepolis, a stone age village of adobe houses. Standing about on the floors are pottery household utensils, the remains of food in pots, clay fire-dogs on hearths, flint knives. Red paintings still decorate the walls. Dr. Herzfeld figures that the village flourished 4000 B. C. Just four years before and not many miles away, according to Holy Writ, God created Adam...
Item II: In Persepolis Dr. Herzfeld uncovered a series of wall sculptures which, if set together, would form a vast panel of reliefs five or six feet high, almost a thousand feet long. He also found that Artaxerxes wore scarlet shoes...