Word: stobie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yugoslavia. "A second Pompeii!" was the exultant cry that went up in Belgrade from government archeologists who have been excavating the forgotten city of Stobi, founded by the Greeks 2,400 years ago, a beehive of art and learning under the Roman Empire. Already visible are gracious courtyards, marble fountains and swimming pools, a stone amphitheatre for gladiatorial contests seating 10,000, vivid blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes...
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