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...name was scratched on a piece of limestone Dr. Eleazar Lipa Sukenik, archeologist of the University of Jerusalem, dug out of the dry soil of the Holy Land last week. When he got it free of dirt, he deciphered it: JESHUA BAR JOHOSEPH (Jesus, Son of Joseph). The limestone proved to be one side of a boxlike ossuary, similar to many found in that district, built to contain the thighbone of the deceased...
...seems healthy but no company will insure him. He travels everywhere by airplane, writes scathing letters to airline officials on the difficulty of typing or studying in their planes. In Persia he is intimate with the Shah, risks his life almost daily photographing mosques and sacred tombs.* Last April Archeologist Pope decided that what the U. S. needed was an American Institute for Persian Art & Archeology, to do learned digging in Per sia, provide scholarships, publish mono graphs. In a few weeks he had dazzled such tycoons and pundits as Mortimer Leo Schiff, Professor Arthur Kingsley, Dr. William R. Valentiner...
Lost Tribe. With much-publicized Capt. Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett in command, the schooner Effle Morrisey picked her way carefully along the northeastern coast of Greenland between ice floes as large as Manhattan Island. She carried Harry Whitney, Philadelphia financier-naturalist,* and Junius Bird, archeologist. Mr. Bird had gone on the cold 15,000-mi. trip because he had a mystery he wanted to solve. In 1823, the British explorer, Capt. D. C. Clavering had visited a highly civilized Eskimo settlement along the eastern coast. Since Clavering, no explorer had been able to find the town again. Captain Bartlett landed...
...Sunday jaunt to suburban Moncloa, kicked about in a dirt pile on the site of a new university, found a bone, an old dirty pot. When he showed the pot and bone to university authorities, they enthusiastically called a meeting of the board of directors, engaged Professor Hugo Obermaier, archeologist of Central University, to dig more pots. On the streetcar conductor's Sunday picnic site were found coins, wooden kitchen utensils, old pottery, stone knives, a granite grinding mill, skeletons of bulls, goats, birds. Professor Obermaier reported the discoveries...
...Russia. Archeologists have long known the ruins of New Chersonese, an old Greek settlement, near the modern Crimean city of Sevastopol. But they had never found the more ancient site of Old Chersonese which Strabo, famed Greek geographer, described. Two years ago Professor Markevitch, Crimean archeologist, told the Moscow Archeological Society to stop scratching in the earth, to look under the sea for Old Chersonese. Fishermen had told him of a wonderful submarine city off the coast of Sevastopol. Russian scientists set to work soon afterward with divers and giant searchlights, found Old Chersonese 210 ft. offshore. The city stretches...