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DIED. ROBERT JOHNSTON, 77, archaeologist whose work in digitally restoring and decoding manuscripts that had faded or blackened over time resulted in new glimpses into such texts as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Papyrus documents, which chronicled daily life in ancient Egypt; in Brighton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 7, 2005 | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...Thompson Room was abuzz with excitement on Wednesday, as Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick approached the podium to introduce the inaugural lecture in a series on migration and medieval culture.For the 50 audience members, the lecture, which focused on the collaboration of a physicist and an archaeologist, was more than a speech. It signaled a renewed commitment to medieval studies at Harvard.Two years ago, McCormick was awarded $1.5 million as part of a grant from the Mellon Foundation in New York. Each year, the Mellon Foundation gives five humanities scholars the Distinguished Achievement Award to pursue research over...

Author: By Sadia Ahsanuddin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grant Expands Medieval Program | 10/14/2005 | See Source »

...through the islands. Though evidence of its country's founding culture has been discovered in Vanuatu before, the story is far from complete, and when he heard of the driver's find, Ralph Regenvanu, the head of Vanuatu's Cultural Centre and National Museum, asked Spriggs and another ANU archaeologist, Stuart Bedford, to assess the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riddle of the Bones | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...says skeptic Alan Thorne, an anthropologist at the Australian National University. "There are plenty of Pygmies in that area. In the case of these bones, it was probably a diseased Pygmy." Counters Peter Brown, the University of New England paleoanthropologist who co-wrote the Nature report with a colleague, archaeologist Michael Morwood: "Of course, there are small-bodied people on Flores, but they don't have brains one-third the size of ours, or unusually shaped pelvises or very long arms like H. floresiensis. They are just small modern humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bones of Contention | 5/30/2005 | See Source »

...GEORGI KITOV, archaeologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasures Fit For The Kings | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

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