Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wickwar of Harvard took the first pictures of the royal burial chamber. The underground structures were discovered in 1853 by Spiegelthal, the German consul at Smyrna. Since then the tunnels leading to them have become clogged with earth and a dangerous fall of rubble has completely covered one chamber and spilled into the other. The one still accessible is built with astonishing precision out of marble blocks fitted together in razor-blade joins. Its huge ceiling blocks weigh several tons
JOHN D. THYEN JR. Second Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Sewart Air Force Base Smyrna, Tenn...
...greatest Greek poets of the 20th century, C. P. (Constantine Peter) Cavafy and George Seferis, were not born in Greece. Cavafy spent almost his entire life (1863-1933) in Alexandria, the site of his family's business. Seferis. 61, was born and brought up in Smyrna, educated in Paris, and after a lifetime of diplomatic service he is currently Greece's Ambassador to Britain. Thus each man brought the special, painful clarity of exile to the common task of all modern artists, and particularly of Greek artists: to define their relation to their country, and their country...