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Across
8 Ancient Greek historian and geographer (6)
9 2nd-century Greek theologian, author of Against Heresies (8)
10 Fabled city of South America (2,6)
11 Mayan style of architecture from northern Yucatan (3,3)
12 Inca citadel (9)
14 Recess in the wall of a Roman basilica (4)
16 Member of an ancient Hellenic people (6)
17 Mammal introduced to Britain by the Romans (6)
20 The wife and sister of Zeus in Greek mythology (4)
22 King of Macedonia, 336-323 BC (9)
23 Neolithic settlement in eastern Turkey (6)
25 Empire that reached its height under Tiglathpileser (8)
27 US state, location of the Renner Village Archaeological Site (8)
28 Visigoth king who captured Rome in AD 410 (6)
Down
1 Structure, formed of calcium salts, hanging from the roof of a cave (10)
2 ___ ware, 6th-century BC Spartan pottery (8)
3 Roman port on the Tyrrhenian coast founded in 273 BC (4)
4 French city whose Roman name was Augustoritum (7)
5 Open-air Palaeolithic settlement near Nice (5,5)
6 Native American Plains tribe who migrated from the Lake Superior
region in the 17th century (6)
7 Member of a Germanic people believed to have invaded Britain in
the 5th century AD (4)
13 Chalcolithic to Roman site east of Ankara (5,5)
15 Roman festival in December (10)
18 Egyptian agrarian culture of 4500-3250 BC (8)
19 Roman silver coins (7)
21 Daughter of Cyrus the Great who married Darius I (6)
24 Bull god worshipped in ancient Egypt (4)
26 Thurstan ___, British archaeologist who specialised in West Africa (4)
For answers to #129, see next issue.
Answers to Crossword #128
Across: 8 Colorado, 9 Avalon, 10 Strabo, 11 Sassanid, 12 Unstan ware, 15 Odin, 16 Kiowa, 17 Essex, 21 Mari, 22 Erik the Red, 23 Valhalla, 24 Ajanta, 26 Yunnan, 27 Rievaulx.
Down: 1 Montana, 2 Cosa, 3 Sago, 4 Worsaae, 5 Hatshepsut, 6 Palaeocene, 7 Bolivia, 13 Trilithons, 14 New Zealand, 18 Karasuk, 19 Pizarro, 20 Fertile, 24 Apet, 25 Alan.
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