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Herakleion's re-emergence from the sea should provide a treasure trove not only for archaeologists but also for historians. "Now when you read the ancient text," says Goddio, "everything makes sense...
...intrigued, in fact, that he recruited documentary maker and TIME film critic Richard Schickel and immediately started hunting for more raw footage from World War II. With Paisley's help, they amassed 600 hours' worth and began editing the remarkable trove. The result is Shooting War, a spectacularly conceived and haunting 90-min. documentary that premieres June 5, in conjunction with the opening of the National D-Day Museum, at a conference sponsored by the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans...
Controlling a strategic juncture where the Silk Route crossed the Euphrates River, the city of Zeugma was one of the Roman Empire's easternmost outposts--until it was torched by Persian invaders in A.D. 252. But like the eruption that buried Pompeii two centuries earlier, the fire preserved a trove of mosaics, statuary and villas. Now Zeugma faces destruction again, this time from rising floodwaters of a hydroelectric project. "It is a wall-to-wall carpet of mosaics, richer and more important than Pompeii," laments archaeologist Mehmet Onal. For a brief moment last week, Turkish officials hinted that the ruins...
...report on the newly released trove of documents about the Vietnam War [HISTORY, April 24], I'm not sure which of President Gerald Ford's "humiliations" bothered me the most--his comment that "no one knows more than I how humiliating it was...[to] watch our troops get kicked out of Vietnam" or his reference to the "military humiliation" there. Notwithstanding the end result of the Vietnam conflict, the U.S. troops' clear domination of nearly every fire fight makes it hard to consider this a military humiliation. Vietnam was a political and domestic failure. The true humiliation? Well, that...
...treasure trove of tradition includes a 1563 copy of Cicero's letters, part of a larger donation of Classics from former House Master John H. Finley Jr. '25, as well as a signed edition of The Confidential Clerk, penned by former House resident T.S. Eliot...