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...GABRIEL BARKAY, archaeologist...
Based on requests, Kurth is creating new packages, including possible stints as a chef, golf pro, news anchor, opera singer, zookeeper, pilot, archaeologist, sports announcer, photographer and a Los Angeles wedding-and-events planner...
Long before grapes grew on Trellises in Napa and Sonoma, long before vineyards flourished in Bordeaux and Bourgogne, a sophisticated wine industry arose along the banks of the Nile. From tombs, temples and palaces that date as far back as 5,000 years ago, archaeologists have uncovered clay amphorae stamped with seals that name not only the contents (irp, or wine) but also the region in which the grapes were grown, the year in which the wine was produced, the owner of the estate and often some indication of quality, such as "good" and "very, very good...
...diminutive, bowlegged archaeologist named Michel Tranet stands alone in trying to stanch that flow. Tranet is officially designated Undersecretary of State at Cambodia's Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts--but it's a comically grand title for a man whose entire staff consists of himself. Tranet, of Khmer-French parentage, returned from exile in 1993 with the sole mission of protecting Cambodia's heritage. "Our history is so important to us that we have Angkor Wat on our flag," says Tranet. "So why are we as a people, as a government, as a country, allowing our heritage to slip...
Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear: the '80s, when a fedora-topped, whip-cracking, ophidiophobic archaeologist kindled the innocent spirit of antique adventure-movie serials in a generation of kids who had never been to a Saturday matinee. After Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg are hatching a fourth episode, to star the sexagenarian Harrison Ford. But why wait for that film? Relive the first three in a spiffy new DVD boxed set from Paramount Home Video...