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...Gold!" cried the grizzled German archeologist, clutching the arm of his beautiful young Greek wife. They stared down into the excavation. "Quick!" he whispered. "Send the men home at once . . . Tell them anything you want." A few minutes later the unsuspecting workmen were gone, and Heinrich Schliemann, a knife in his hand and a frenzy in his head, was digging gold bangles and diadems out of the foundations of Homeric Troy. Priam's treasure! The words roared in his ears. Staggering up, Schliemann looped a necklace 3,000 years old around the neck of his 20-year-old wife...
...door open, leading into vast, dimly lit souterrains. After a look at the enormous stone cenotaphs buried in dust, the colonel . . . left and finally found a rabbi, from whom to take the town over. Later on, when Meinertzhagen discussed his experience with [Father Hugues] Vincent, the famous Dominican archeologist, it became clear that he had actually been in the mausoleum of the patriarchs, missing in his hurry a unique and irretrievable chance for research . . . THEODORE F. MEYSELS Jerusalem...
Trevor Howard plays an archeologist turned amateur sleuth, who meets Anonk, a French barmaid, soon after his arrival in the Tunision hamlet of Kabarta, but not too seen for him to have already stumbled onto a gun-running racket when his car was blocked by a landslide during a heavy rainstorm. Anouk's brother Max turns out to be mixed up with the gang, so the love affair between the archaeologist and the barmaid gets awfully massy...
...American Anthropological Association yesterday announced the establishment of the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award in honor of a renownedd University archeologist...
Neolithic New Yorkers. U.S. archeology is mostly concerned with Indians, who are more appreciated now than in the early settlers' days. Dr. William A. Ritchie, New York State Archeologist, told how he dated Indian remains by means of carbon 14 in charcoal from long-dead campfires...