Word: archaeologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moldlike substance was discovered in a section called the Hall of Bulls (named for the lO-ft.-high creatures on its walls). The patch spread rapidly, and similar growths began to crop up elsewhere. This mysterious maladie verte so distressed French Cultural Affairs Minister André Malraux, an amateur archaeologist himself, that he appointed a commission of archaeologists, speleologists and other savants to save France's "prehistoric Sistine Chapel...
...armed with a UNESCO grant, the Polish archaeologist Kazimierz Michalowski set out with a team of scholars to excavate the most promising site: a hillside near the Bedouin village of Faras. There an earlier British archaeologist had discovered the remnants of a city of perhaps 30,000 inhabitants and unearthed parts of an Arab citadel. Michalowski dug into the citadel's foundations. Beneath its brick walls were the remains of what had once been a Christian cathedral, covering about 9,000 sq. ft. and intended for at least a thousand worshipers. Sustained by centuries of drifted sand, many walls...
...Troy once existed. Yet he maintains that none of the archaeological findings to date even remotely supports anything like the Homeric account of Helen's abduction and the Greeks' revenge. To begin with, says Berve, there is the site of Troy itself. Shortly after the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began digging into an 85-ft.-high mound called Hissarlik (Turkish for palace) in the northwestern corner of Turkey in 1870, he decided that he had unearthed the remnants of Priam's palace and the Trojan King's treasure...
...many classicists agree with Berve's thesis that Homer's poems are far from literal truth. But few are quite so willing to reject Homer entirely. Simply because Troy seems to have been much smaller than Homer's description of it in the Iliad, says British Archaeologist James Mellaart, does not preclude the possibility that Homer may have patterned his story on an actual event. Because Homer wrote 400 years after the war, adds U.S. Archaeologist Rhys Carpenter, he probably could be forgiven lapses on particulars. Berve does not think that Homer should be treated so charitably...
Yadin plans to clear out the shaft, install guard railings on the stairway and restore the entire waterworks system. 'We will not need the water for siege periods," says the soldier-archaeologist confidently, "but it will come in handy for tourists and visitors...