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...clay pictographs of Sumer (3000 B.C.) and as new as the freshest video graphics. To trace the highlights of that epic would take unflagging research and a tireless, discerning eye. These are, happily, the attributes of Michel Melot, a Paris-based librarian who seems to have studied every scroll, page and poster since the origin of writing and painting...
Among the prize finds: three elegant ceramic pots made between 3500 and 2500 B.C., one with incised designs, that were placed atop the legs of a buried body; a large vessel with an intricate scroll pattern, dated 3000 to 2000 B.C., that was used to inter a two-year-old child, and a plain cup found near by that might have contained food for the baby; and two iron spearheads with bronze sockets (to hold wooden handles), dated 800 to 400 B.C., which are among the oldest iron objects found in eastern Asia...
Captain Morse also said yesterday that detectives have no suspects in the apparently unrelated theft of two silver crowns from a Torah scroll in Memorial Church on September...
...that show as well as such specials as Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Stone's notion was to create a quest theme. The story opens as Big Bird (played, as he is on Sesame Street, by Caroll Spinney), roller-skates through Manhattan's Chinatown and admires a scroll depicting the legendary phoenix of China. He is smitten and resolves to go to China as a sort of avian Henry Kissinger, to tell the phoenix that "American birds think Chinese birds are just swell." Finding the phoenix is the problem. Big Bird and his shaggy sidekick Barkley...
Schimmel, the first women and first foreigner ever to receive the Hilal-i-Imfiaz Award, accepted the medal and scroll in a Pakistan government ceremony, March 23, which she described yesterday, as "like our commencement. I should...