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Jordan, where all the Dead Sea scrolls were found, forbade the Bedouins to dig up pand sell the scrolls. But the government did permit Bedouins to sell to the scholars, with the understanding that they would return the scrolls to the government after they had published the material...
...died as a result, and because they could not be helilifted out to proper medical treatment. The dead were piled six high and hastily covered with ponchos, arms and legs protruding from the grim mass. So tight was the U.S. perimeter that one soldier had to move bodies to dig himself a trench to sleep in, and another used two fallen buddies to keep himself warm during the bitter cold highlands night...
Proud of their accomplishment, they recently threw secrecy to the wind, opened their basement display room to visitors. Among them was Professor Otto Doppelfeld of the Roman-Germanic museum, who forgave the youths for disobeying orders. "Indeed, I'm quite pleased the young people made the dig themselves," he says. "We would have excavated, of course, but just the planning would have taken years...
This, of course, is not the first book to explore the camps or dig into the new subcellars that were constructed under the Lower Depths. It occupies a place on the same shelf as Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Lydia Chukovskaya's The Deserted House, another homefront view of the purges recently published in the U.S. But since Mrs. Ginzburg's book is a work of nonfiction, an intensely...
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