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Evidence which led Lamberg-Karlovsky to believe that he had indeed found Carmania included the discovery of elephant teeth in the top of the mound. Elephants are uncommon to Persia but were regularly used by Alexander for military transportation...
...wisely avoided the pillory hysterical approach, reasoning that if "The Gate" follows the other sections, it must bear some relation to them. The lasting impression of this work and of the evening was a sensible, thoughtful and commendable performance of a program rich in history by an Orchestra of uncommon musicianship...
VOYAGE OF SILENCE. A deceptively simple story of a young Portuguese carpenter emigrating to Paris is given uncommon strength and stature by the compassionate observation of Director Christian de Chalonge...
...city built in approximately 400 B.C. Lemberg-Karlovsky suspects that it is the ancient city of Carmania, which Alexander the Great conquered without shedding a drop of blood in 325 B.C. Although his theory is as yet unproven, the Harvard anthropologist points out that the teeth of elephants, animals uncommon to the area but regularly used for military transportation by Alexander, have been unearthed in the top of the mound. And in a nearby village, young boys are often called "Iskanda," a name almost never heard elsewhere in Iran. Iskanda, explains Lemberg-Karlovsky, means Alexander...
...Uncommon Elephants. Some 1,700 miles and 50 centuries removed from the Sardis dig, the Peabody group discovered a far different trove of relics and artifacts. At the base of the mound they are excavating lie the remains of a neolithic community that thrived as early as 5500 B.C. The find upsets earlier theories, which held that neolithic man had never ventured into such inhospitable surroundings. And unlike other neolithic settlements, the Peabody dig is surrounded by remnants of a mammoth wall, 7 ft. high and 20 ft. thick. Behind it the archaeologists have uncovered a series of tiny chambers...