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...first Dr. Hartman's explorations will be archaeological-in the watery streets of Paleopolis, earliest Greek colony in Italy; now on the deep bottom of the Bay of Naples; and at Jerba, long-drowned port of Punic Carthage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bottomward | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...Tunis, regiments of workmen obeyed, more and less satisfactorily, the behests of many and various heads of a large Franco-American mobilization whose collective effort is being expended to uncover Carthage-home of Dido, Hannibal, Hamilcar-and contemporary towns of the Punic civilization, buried Utica, submerged Jerba-the lotus-eaters' island of the ancients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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