Word: pompei
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...granted to foreigners for 30 years. Last week there was news from the Penn excavations 90 miles from Rome, news as important to international goodwill as to archeology. "We have unearthed," said Penn's scholarly Dr. Jotham Johnson, "a vast pre-Roman city four times larger than Pompei. . . . We have unearthed an ancient Greek market place unique in the world. Such, a find does not exist, so far as we know, even in Greece itself. . . . Some of the city walls must be of the Fifth Century before Christ. . . . There is a temple of the period of Augustus [contemporary with...
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