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...further inquiry, however, among the debris of the landslide were found a Hellenistic chamber tomb, a Roman wall-painted chamber, two Lydian town walls, and a room of the seventh century B.C. These three Lydian finds represent three distinctly different phases of Lydian civilization and so will be immensely useful in tracking the urban growth of this area, one of the main objects of the expedition. An interesting sidelight of these discoveries along the Patoclus is that the Roman graves are placed near where the Lydian city had been. The Romans always buried outside the city walls; the sixth century...
...story, things went hard for the Jews of England. Nearly 1,000 were jailed that year in London alone, Jewish property was confiscated, and many of them were executed. Little St. Hugh, as he was soon called,*received a pillared shrine in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1791 the tomb was opened by the president of the Royal Society. Inside was "the complete skeleton of a boy, three feet, three inches long." For years, on a plaque above the tomb, visitors to Lincoln Cathedral could read a full account of the story, softened only by a small postscript casting doubt...
...courses, out of a total of 50 undergraduate offerings, seems hardly a fair ratio considering the importance of this period. Avid Egyptophiles can learn about the art of Karnak and Tutankamon's tomb next year in Fine Arts 131, but they cannot discover the history of the various dynasties. Students of Minoan or Cretan developments have only Professor Hanfmann's course in Aegean archaeology--next year--without a corresponding History course...
...setting of The Devil's Advocate is the mountain town of Gemello Minore in Calabria, in parched and poverty-scarred Southern Italy. The cult-prone townsfolk have taken to worshiping at the tomb of Giacomo Nerone, a mysterious World War II deserter who lived less than a year in the town before being shot by Communist partisans. The local bishop asks Rome to send a "Promoter of the Faith" or "Devil's Advocate" to sift the ambiguous signs of Nerone's saintliness...
...rode in triumph in an open-top black Citroen between ten-deep lines of Parisians, escorted by red-white-and-blue-uniformed motorcycle cops, later by shining-helmeted swordsmen of the Garde Republicaine. That afternoon, amid dignified rather than hysterical applause, they drove up the Champs-Elysees to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. There the President saluted, walked past a guard of honor of hard. fit. proud-looking troops, laid a wreath of pink lilies and red roses beside the eternal flame. The President, standing bareheaded, was deeply moved. De Gaulle, several steps...