Word: archaeologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buckler is a 'native of Baltimore, who has been a lawyer, an archaeologist, an assistant director of the American Expedition to Sardis, and a special agent of the Embassy in London during the World War. He is vice-president of the Hellenic Society and the author of a book on "Lydian Inscriptions." The lecture will be of special interest because of the surprising recent advancement of Byzantine Art as revealed by the mosaics uncovered in 1928 in the great mosque at Damascus...
...common in Kentucky and Ohio. In one of them he discovered "1,000 skeletons," flint arrowheads, bits of metal that may have indicated a traveling and trading people. But the basis for the "3,000-year-old" guess, the delineation of civilization and culture, were obscure. No archaeologist of standing could last week be located to say whether the Wickliffe diggings were a "buried city" or another Indian burial ground...
Died, Sophie Engastromenos Schliemann, 80, archaeologist, relict of the late great Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann who uncovered an ancient town which he claimed to be Troy; in Athens. After 15 years of woe with his first wife, whom he divorced, Schliemann asked the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to pick a Greek bride for him, "of the true Greek type, black-haired and, if possible, beautiful." The Archbishop picked Sophie, 16, who lived happily with Schliemann for 21 years until his death...
...With customary reclame, last week Herex announced that Betty Sturgis Field, cousin of playwright Preston Sturgis, wife of Henry Field (archaeologist of the Field Museum, nephew of Capitalist Stanley Field), would henceforth conduct "The Social Whirl" for the paper...
...write a comprehensive history of the style," the noted archaeologist continued. "It is necessary to know exactly what the church was like, which it is impossible to obtain from the few existing charts describing the monastery. The only possible way to achieve this knowledge is by excavating the remains, and with the aid of available chairs, to reconstruct the buildings on paper. Moreover, the role of this church was considerable in the history of the tenth and eleventh centuries, having contributed many famous churchmen and having played an important part in the reformation of the Catholic Church, during the last...