Word: stonework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parasols, 1,200 Israelis pushed through two passageways into the ancient, open-air theater amid the ghostly remains of Caesarea, chief port of Rome's eastern colonies, built by Herod the Great ten years before the birth of Christ. Behind the orchestra pit lay cracked columns and stonework that bore witness to the far reach of the Roman Empire: pink granite from Egypt, creamy marble from Greece and Asia. The crumbling limestone seats, only recently excavated by Italian archaelogists, were liberally sprinkled with the dust of centuries...