Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hambidge, of New York, will lecture in the Museum this afternoon at 4.30 on "The Mathematical Basis of Egyptian and Greek Designs." This lecture will be illustrated...
Ashton Sanborn '05, assistant curator of the Egyptian section in the University Museum of Philadelphia, has been for the past two seasons in Egypt with the expedition from that Museum. The expedition is in charge of Clarence S. Fisher, G. '08-09, who was formerly associated with the University Palestinian Expedition and with the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition in Egypt...
...recent bequest of $500,000, made by the late Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., of Philadelphia, for the work of the Egyptian section in the University Museum in that city, is a gift unparalleled in archaeology and places the work in Egypt on a permanent basis...
Among the more important finds have been ten large statues of kings of Ethiopia, five of which were complete. The expedition has also uncovered the foundations of temples built by Egyptian kings of the 18th dynasty, and proved that the sphinxes of Amenophis III and other monuments of that period found at Barkel belong to these temples, and were not brought there in later times, as some historians have assumed...
...Reisner is professor of Egyptology in the University and has been in charge of several excavations under the direction of the Egyptian government. He has also conducted two other expeditions sent by the University into Palestine and Samaria...