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...Grosjean has had to reconstruct an obscure artistic period. His starting point was a mysterious Mediterranean "People of the Sea," who left dome-shaped temples on Corsica, Sardinia and elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Identified as "Shardanes," they appear on an 1190 B.C. bas-relief in an Egyptian temple in Medinet Habu wearing horned helmets (the Corsican menhirs have helmets with holes that may have once been filled with horns). A likely conclusion: the Shardanes built the menhirs. Scratching the Surface. Elementary but wrong, decided Grosjean. Why would the Shardanes cut up their own monuments? Why would they sculpt menhirs...
...math teacher 362 624 260 1160 Turner, A., librarian 278 840 272 934 Peet, G., planning engineer 403 1584 230 958 Liveson, ay, dr. of neurology 652 2450 450 2100 McCarriston, J., student 356 1608 272 900 Morgan, E., mgr. mtg. eng. 500 2100 400 1000 Morse, H., employer Medinet 475 1600 747 1520 Noyes, W., seminary stud. 528 1200 340 1450 Piper, H., Harvard student 500 1488 420 1100 Puricelli, R., jr. claim exam. 329 2392 294 2243 Read, N., B.U. student 317 1375 258 870 Rudolf, H., consultant 205 770 174 550 Saunders, W., copy writer...
...building boom is not confined to the hotels, which were host this winter to a record half-million tourists. On the edge of the city, entire new suburbs are in being or abuilding. At Medinet el Waqf, Egypt's new managers are housed in modern stucco cottages. On the northern rim of the city, 40,000 low-cost housing units were erected last year...
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