Word: sudan
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Cases of treasures arrived in America from the Harvard-Boston Museum expedition, under Dr. George A. Reisner, throwing much light on the vague history of the ancient kingdom of Ethiopa (part of the modern Sudan). They include a decorated stone altar and a black granite coffin of King Aspalta...
...that if Morocco is ever conquered by the Spaniards it would be by their doctors and their hospitals." Joan Rosita Forbes (nee Torr), 30, married in 1911 Col. Ronald Forbes, whom she divorced in 1917. She has visited most of the far corners of the earth- China, Syria, the Sudan, Libya (disguised as a Bedouin woman), Eritrea. She has published several accounts of her travels, has written many articles on Middle Eastern politics for leading British dailies and weeklies...
...Central Powers in the war. On February 28, 1922, the British Government announced that the Protectorate was abolished, but that there should be: maintenance of British Empire communications; defense of Egypt against foreign aggression; protection of foreign interest in Egypt and minorities; guarantees for British interests in the Sudan. On March 1, 1922, Sarwat Pasha formed an Egyptian Cabinet. And on March 16, Fuad, Sultan of Egypt, was proclaimed King Fuad I of Egypt?the first independent ruler of Egypt since the death of Cleopatra on August 29, 30 B. C. The British, who had ruled the country by martial...
...question of the Sudan, at present under Anglo-Egyptian rule, at first caused considerable difficulty. The Egyptians claimed full sovereignty over it, but the British stated that they were unwilling to abandon their interest in that country. The constitution now holds that Egypt's rights in the Sudan are unaffected and that the King's titles will be defined after Anglo-Egyptian negotiations have definitely decided its status...
...excavations at Meroe were begun in 1920, were continued last winter, and may be completed this year, according to the report, which will appear in full in the next Bulletin of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Meroe is in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, not very far from Khartum. It is over six hundred miles south of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, where the discovery of King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb was recently made...