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Word: gizeh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Institute has since been operating mostly on the income from this, which amounts to about a third of the former yearly grants. Few other U. S. diggers are working the war-clouded Near East. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, however, has a party at Gizeh in Egypt, where it has labored continuously for 35 years, and where it unearthed among other treasures the gold-cased furniture of Queen Hetep heres I. The American Schools of Oriental Research have a party on the site of King Solomon's ancient Red Sea port (TIME, May 30, 1938) and an expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Doleful Diggers | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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