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...weeks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Despite rain, slush and bone-cracking cold, a crowd of 23,872 queued up in three-block-long lines on the first day to make frostbitten obeisance before the lady with the greenish face in her bulletproof, heat-and-humidity-controlled shrine...
...Moslem mullahs (priests), whose shrine lands were up for leasing to Iran's landless farmers, did not like the idea at all. Students protested the Shah's dissolution of the Majlis (parliament) a year and a half ago after the legislators rigged elections, then crippled the royal land reform bill with 93 amendments. Since then, ruling by decree, the Shah has distributed 2,000,000 acres of private land (with compensation to owners) to some 50,000 peasant families in 3,500 villages...
Ruins House Shrine...
This summer, while excavating below the temple's courtyard, the archaeologists for the first time saw that the ruins there were a building housing an open-air shrine and separated from the rest of the city by an enclosure wall. Along one side was a series of rooms, used perhaps by resident priests, erected in the 13th century B.C. The structure was rebuilt a number of times during the next two centuries, but the open-air shrine and sacred area remained on the same spot, though the floor level was raised with each building period...
...addition, when the area was filled about 1600 B.C. and a temple built there, its altar and sacred pillar were carefully placed directly over that same spot where the earlier shrine had stood. At this level the archaeologists also found traces of the great processional road leading from the lower city to the temple...