Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evidence of a Lydian alphabet at that date appears in a repeated monogram, translated a "Gugu," along a wall. This was the name given the notorious Lydian king, Gyges, in Assyrian annals, according to George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts and field director of the expedition. The structure was the burial mound of Gyges, founder of the great Lydian Kingdom...
...miles from Sardis. It is a small artificial mountain of clay, earth, and limestone, some 700 feet in diameter and 120 feet high. Hidden within the great mound was found an earlier mound 300 feet in diameter. Circling the base of the inner mound is a six-foot-high wall of beautiful masonry crowned by a large circular bolster...
...archaeologists dug another tunnel for some 160 feet to trace the wall. Inscribed on it were various letters. One monogram, repeated ten times, is deciphered by the excavators as "Gugu," the names under which King Gyges is mentioned in the Assyrian annals. Gyges had sent an embassy to Assyria, which ceated a sensation since the Lydian horsemen had come so far and spoke a language strange to the Assyrians...
...Socialist community against any plots of aggressors." If Chou was impressed, he did not show it. To demonstrate his continued disdain for Khrushchevian wrong-think, he ducked around the back of Lenin's Tomb and paid a reverential visit to Stalin's modest grave outside the Kremlin wall...
Profitable Leaps. This bewilderingly diversified and remarkably creative company has become a darling of Wall Street by poking inquisitively into a bunch of unlikely products that stick, slip or scratch. Founded in 1902 to mine corundum for use in abrasive wheels, 3M struggled into the manufacture of sandpaper and then into masking tape. Its big breakthrough was the familiar Scotch Tape, which 3M invented originally as industrial masking tape. Scotch Tape still accounts for 17% of the company's sales, has led to 400 other varieties of tape, the latest of which, introduced to the public in September...