Word: reisner
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Important discoveries which are said to have supplied much of the hitherto obscure history of ancient Ethiopia have been made recently by the Eqyptian expedition sent by the University and the Boston Museum of Fine Ants under the direction of Dr. George Andrew Reisner '89. In a recent report Dr. Reisner said that during excavations at Gebel Barkal, material bearing on the whole period between 1600 B. C. and 100 A. D. had been found and that prospects were that further excavations would bring to light objects of still greater importance...
...expedition reached Gebel Barkal from Cairo on January 24 fast," says Dr. Reisner in his report. "We worked there three months, employing a force of about 300 local workmen, and left just in time to escape the hot weather. Fortunately at Gebel Barkal there were two completely ruined pyramids of small size. We found in the case of each a stairway on the eastern side leading down to the chambers under the pyramid. With this hint we attacked the larger pyramids, and within a month we had found the entrances of 25 pyramids and had cleared the burial chambers...
...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...
Archaeology is the really romantic thing in this generation, now that war has been turned into a dismal science, and no, more strange countries--only wastes of Arctic snow--remain to be explored--The record of the latest discoveries of the Harvard Egyptian Expedition, under Dr. George A. Reisner, as related by him to an Associated Press correspondent at Cairo, is surely a story of romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward...
...Dewing '02; "Selections from the Federalist," by Professor W. B. Munro; "Lectures on Dante," by Dr. William Boyd-Carpenter, Canon of Westminster Abbey; and the latest volume, NO. XXIV, of the Harvard Studies in Classical philology. A report on the "Harvard Expedition to Samaria," by Dr. G. A. Reisner '89 and a volume of reproductions of the "Sumerian Tablets in the Harvard Semitic Museum," by Miss M. I. Hussey, are to be published shortly...