Word: reisner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have helped the Terriers stay near the .500 mark, are Ernie McFadgen and Marty Reisner, both 6 foot 4, and Bob Spence, 6 foot...
From the Bequest of George Andrew Reisner Class of 1889 Professor of Egyptology...
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the Reisner books is the brief, but quite conclusive, opinion he indicated in each volume. Reisner graded every detective story, and on the fly-leaf of many of the volumes now in the Widener stacks, one can find a pencilled...
...half a century, Reisner lived in Cairo, Egypt, scouring the Near East and working at the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza. In Ethiopia, he excavated the graves and remains of 67 Sudanese kings and queens. At the Giza Pyramids, he found the tomb of a queen who had died around 3,000 B.C., and invaluable works of art from the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt...
...When Reisner died in 1942, he left his entire library to Harvard College. The war interfered with transportation of the volumes until 1946, however, and Widener librarians waited for a comprehensive collection of works on archaeology, egyptology, and the Near East...