Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became Hearst lecturer in Egyptology and director of the Hearst Egyptian expedition from the University of California from 1899 to 1905; professor of Egyptology since 1914, he has also directed the Egyptian expedition of Harvard and Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1905, he was director of the Harvard Palestinian Expedition, conducting excavations at Samaria, 1907-10. Besides being archaeologist in charge of excavations of the Egyptian government in Nubia in preparation to flooding lower Nubia by raising the Assuan dam from 1907 to 1909, Professor Reisner has written several volumes about his work...
...busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady of the Teutons. By further Palestinian exploration, the museum hopes to develop a complete series of armor, something that does not yet exist...
...spending of money for this Palestinian digging caught the attention of Emir Abdullah, ruling under British mandate beyond the Jordan. Hence his recent invitation...
...Menuhin, senior, settled in Palestine when a young man. His name at that time was not Menuhin. He adopted this Hebrew name to signify the peacefulness which his sensitive spirit found in the land of his forefathers, Palestine. His wife was a native Palestinian Jewish girl. They married, emigrated to the U. S. and made their home in San Francisco...
...Palestinian Room of the Museum may be seen such objects as blocks of rock salt from the mountain at the southern end of the Dead Sea, the region of the story of Lot's wife; specimens of fine, bright-colored stone, such as Solomon may have used in building the Temple; models giving reproductions of the Tabennacle, of the Temple of Solemon, and of the Temple of Herod; tiles from the Tenth Roman Legion stationed at Jerusalem in the first century; hand mills, such as were used by the women of old and are used by the women...