When Pompeii's 2, 000-year-old "House of Gladiators" collapsed in November, followed by thecollapseof three more walls in December, critics accused the government of failing to preserve the archaeological treasure.
Pakhi Begum, 30, no relation to Marium Begum, said she and the other workers were reluctant to go into the factory the day ofthecollapse, after word spread the day before of serious cracks in thewalls.
Rather, he circles his prey, returning again and again to the same issue, firing an arrow here, knocking off a chip there and waiting, one feels, for thewallsof Jericho finally to collapse at the nagging of his persistent trumpet.