Show THE LAST I FRONTIER w I IBy By DAVID DIETZ DIETZ I INEA INEA NEA Service I Writer Atop a great precipice of at blood 1 blood I Ired red rocks upon the northern coast coast coa t 1 of ot Africa looking down upon the azure Gulf Gult of Tunis a group of ot I pioneers of oC tho the last frontier scientific research workers workers arc aro l at work I They lire are using powerful stream streams of water ater to wash away tho the sandy sand rock Then they are passing the debris through h sand sieves es Their hose Is washing away aWI centuries of of time Their sieves am ln sorting out the records of ot past civilizations I For the scientists under the direction di dl di- di direction of ot Count Byron nyron Do ProTO are aro bringing to light the ancient city of oC Carthage Carl Count Is carrying on or- with intensified methods the work orl In which Father Delattre known as Uio ho dean lIean of European arche arche- archeologists has been engaged for Cor 50 5 years Legend has It as all high school students of Latin know that tho Phoenicians under Queen Dido founded Carthage The T e date Is h usually set at D. D B C C. figures prominently In Inthe the history of at the ancient world In the sixth century B. B C. C she sho dominated tho the Then came the great wars with the tho Greeks Centuries later the great greal wars between Cartha co and Rome Home were vero fought ending with the destruction destruction tion of Carthage by the Romans Roman In i n HG B. B C Th Romans nomans rebuilt i Carthage In 12 Ii B. C. C and eventually ev it be ha- became came one of ot the tho great centers of Christianity But Dut I in A. A D. D the city was destroyed by the never ne Count excavations are arp revealing the successive la layers ers of civilization In Carthage I The first excavations revealed Arab tombs Below them a Chris Chrls- chapel was Wag found Cound Theft ThEl Roman cisterns And still deeper Phoenician tombs that are arc thought to date back hack to B. B C. C Running the sand through the tho sieves sie es has yielded Melded hundreds hundreds' hund reds reds' of at coins beads and and other small ob ob- The streams of water have ha un sin- uncovered covered many man monuments Among Amon them are the Temple of oC Baal Daal Ammon where mothers sacrificed their children expects to prove prove that the Egyptians had a colony upon tho the site of Carthage long before the Phoenicians arrived Future excavations will of ot course put this theory to tho the test teat The excavations show how little is now new under lInder the sun Pro Pro- rok has found Cound eyebrow pencils pencil and lipsticks c ks stone boxes con containing taming powder and rouge per per- perfume p perfume r. r fume Cume bottles and hairpins Dins Eyeglasses have also been eh caw caw n found Cound From m certain ctrl inscriptions Pr believes be hu e es that tv both paper aP money and check books existed in ancient Carthage As A himself h sk elf peril self s out t tonly only fountain pens have yet jet ct to be found Cound to give glye a picture of at the th lh business man of ot Carthage adjust adjust- adjusting sage sage t ting ing log his eyeglasses and writing a check heck And probably as he wrote wro It t he shook his head meditating up upon upon on the high cost ot of o living HYing anti and the styles of women's clothes |