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The cities and Medinas constantly teeming with people during the weekend gave the impression of a world far removed from the fast pace of Cambridge. A visit to Volubilis, the site of ancient Roman ruins and Meknes, an ancient city within the modern world, gave the visitors a sense of...
Archaeology is something of a national sport in Israel. The most recently completed excavation is a 200-yd.-long stretch of the original Roman main street, called the Cardo. Under Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century, the Romans made it a grand boulevard lined with columns and shopping arcades. It...
Princip's 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, put Europe on the way to World War I, but Sarajevo has been a crossroads of violence for centuries. The Romans conquered the site in the 1st century A.D., the Slavs invaded in the 6th...
Your article on Syria [Dec. 19] stressed the belief that Lebanon is part of a "Greater Syria." The eastern Mediterranean lands, which the Romans classified under the vague title Syria, were later called Palestine by biblical scholars.
Though the Nazis have never been outdone in applying seemingly harmless labels to the most hideous practices, most governments sooner or later find euphemism an indispensable device. "Pacification" has become a popular term for war ("War is peace," as the Ministry of Truth says in Nineteen Eighty-Four), but the...