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...visible are gracious courtyards, marble fountains and swimming pools, a stone amphitheatre for gladiatorial contests seating 10,000, vivid blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar of a synagogue is a curious cistern at the bottom of which the diggers found seven gold pieces?cast there, in Dr. Petovich's opinion, by a scared Jew fleeing from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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