Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Among the awards just announced by the judges of the Pan-American Exposition, honorable mention is awarded the Peabody Museum for a case of ancient Mayasbela...
...Farabee 3G. and A. M. Tozzer 2G. have been engaged all summer upon special work under the supervision, at the start of Professor Putnam. The former has been in New Mexico exploring the ancient ruin of a small pueblo and also a burial place, while the latter has begun to study the myths and language of the Navajo Indians...
...November by the Peabody Museum to explore the ruined cities of Central America, has just returned. He spent two months in Honduras and three months in Guatemala. The principal part of his work was the exploration of the ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala, the most important ruined city of the ancient Maya civilization. It is buried in a dense tropical jungle through which roads had to be cut to reach the site. The most remarkable of the relics are the stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations at Quirigua Mr. Gordon discovered...
...instructors in the American School of Classical Studies in Rome for the year 1901-1902 will consist of the Director, Professor Richard Norton, Harvard '92, and Professor F. F. Abbott of the University of Chicago. The regular courses of instruction to be given are as follows: By Professor Norton--Ancient Archaeology and Art; The Topography and Monuments of Ancient--Rome: by Professor Abbott--Latin Epigraphy; Latin Palaeography. The larger part of these lectures will given in the field or in the museums, so that actual illustration may be made of the objects discussed. In addition to these lecture courses...
...preliminary Report was printed by the Institute in 1882, and it was hoped that this would be followed at no long interval by a final Report, and by a volume of plates on a large scale, in which the remains of the ancient city should be carefully presented. Various unavoidable hindrances prevented the fulfilment of this design. At length, in 1898, the Institute was obliged to issue an incomplete final Report. It now proposes to publish the long-delayed volume of plates, from the drawings under the superintendence of Mr. F. H. Bacon, one of the original members...