Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tribe of natives in Guatemala who still observe the ancient Mayan religious customs, is all that remains today of a civilization which extends back over a period of 2,500 years," said Professor A. M. Tozzer '00, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday on the history of the Mexican Indian Civilizations...
...Preserve Ancient Forms...
...trade routes are one of the most picturesque of archaeological problems. The road from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was difficult to travel. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where it touched the western culture left haphazard by Alexander's armies and the traders who followed. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally, constricted by the Himalayan Mountains and the Gobi desert, debouched into what is now Kansu province...
...more we study the history of the ancient Far East, the more we see that Chinese civilization, in spite of the fact that it has developed along its own lines and has an entirely distinct character, has, nevertheless, not been secluded and entirely cut off from the rest of the ancient world," declared Professor Paul Pelliot, who recently gave a series of lectures on Neolithic Art in Northern China at the Fogg Museum, in a special interview with the CRIMSON...
...came here to Harvard to speak on some very important discoveries made recently in China which give an insight into the early stage of the evolution of the arts and culture of that region, and also the ancient connections, to some extent economic, existing between the Far East and other portions of the then civilized world...