Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attracted by pottery fragments to a low mound with the native name of M'lefaat, the diggers found relatively recent remains in the upper layers of dirt. Farther down they found something entirely different: filled-in pit houses rather like those that American Indians were building about the time of Columbus. Some of the houses had circular walls of mortarless stone and floors covered with hardpacked pebbles. Inside were crude hearths...
...Mound Bayou, Miss., Negro Physician T. R. M. Howard announced a fund-raising campaign for a special purpose: to help out any Negro who suffers economic pressure at the hands of the segregationist white Citizens Councils...
Glamorous Aura. Four decades ago a businessman named Ichizo Kobayashi became president of the 30-mile-long electric railway from Osaka to Takarazuka (Treasure Mound). To improve his road's languishing business, he decided that he needed a major attraction at the end of the line, began to convert the terminal town into a super music hall. For a stage he covered a swimming pool with boards...
UNTIL a generation or so ago, most archaeologists were bookish scholars, at home among long-dead languages; they did their best work using ancient records as guidebooks. In this way, Schliemann found Homer's Troy under an undistinguished mound in western Turkey...
...original Sodom, at the south end of the Dead Sea, was destroyed by fire and earthquake about 1900 B.C. Some authorities call attention to a mound of salt, called "Lot's Wife," still standing near the modern Sodom...