Word: unearthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Jerusalem, Professor William F. Bade of an expedition sent by the Pacific School of Religion to unearth Biblical Mizpah, pressed his work and returned home last fortnight. Mizpah was used by the Israelites as a fortress and capital during the Babylonian invasion. Its walls were 16 feet to 25 feet thick. Stratified ruins revealed civilizations stretching back from 500 to 3000 B. C. In a 7th Century B. C. cellar were found wine jars and a statue of the Egyptian...
...Modern day dramas," continued Miss Forrest, "are of the very poorest type. Their plots possess nothing but the same old sentimental appeal to the audience. The public is desirous of something now, something startling. That is why it patronizes the musical comedy, in a vain attempt to unearth something spectacular. The public will never be satisfied. It will turn next to the serious drama; then, we will have another complete reversion to the musical revue. I predict, however, that in five years, Ziegfeld's Follies will be a thing of the past...
Archaeology is booming as it never boomed before. Not less than 20 expeditions in every quarter of the globe are digging to unearth new treasuries of human culture. American brains and capital are backing many of these...
When the excavator's shovel can unearth a piece of tapestry or a gold cup which so catches the popular fancy that the styles of the world are changed, the less spectacular work of men like Professor George A. Reisner is temporarily overshadowed. No brilliant treasures were found in the pilfered tombs unearthed by the expedition from this University and the Boston Museum, and the accident of publicity did not popularize their work. Yet their discoveries add whole new chapters to Ethiopian history which will be read when Tut-ankh-Amen has dropped to the footnotes...
Operations are going on in Mesopotamia to unearth the city of Ur and the ruins of Chaldean civilization, antedating by several centuries the civilization of the Nile...