Word: senusret
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Egypt. Near the pyramid of Senusret at Lisht, 30 mi. south of Cairo, in clay undisturbed since the Twelfth Dynasty, an expedition of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art turned up four little ivory figures. The Egyptian Government insisted on keeping three of them; the museum put the fourth on exhibition. When Expedition Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory...