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LETTERS, Page 12Gold, Graves and Scholars
TIME is to be congratulated for its article on the esoteric
topic of Assyriology and the archaeological dig at Nimrud in Iraq
(SCIENCE, Oct. 30). Spectacular finds like this one are useful
for popularizing these studies through museum exhibition, but they
are not the means used to reconstruct a dead civilization. There
is not an Assyriologist on earth who would not prefer a few dozen
important cuneiform tablets to all the gold in Nimrud. Please give
them their scholarly due.
William Altimari
Philadelphia