Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very unpleasant," is the way the archaeologist sums up the entire experience. He spent the reminder of the summer in Jerusalem, recuperating and looking over old manuscripts...
...friendly native, had found a 1,000-ft. section of it still standing on pointed arches. Most ancient aqueduct ever discovered, it was at first mistaken for a "bridge" because the standing part spanned a river. Dr. Breasted's lieutenant in charge of the Persepolis expedition, Archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld of Germany, had more to report to his chief since the utensils, paintings and sculpture which he described last winter (TIME, Jan. 30). Cutting through a ridge to shift his railroad, Dr. Herzfeld came upon hundreds of cuneiform tablets in the Elamite (pre-Persian) language which he hoped would...
...until a late hour last night no further news had been received about Dr. Arthur Kingsley Porter, internationally known archaeologist and William Dorr Boardman, Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard, who is believed to have drowned off the Irish coast in a small sailing boat Saturday afternoon when a severe thunderstorm swept the region...
Suing for Divorce. Elizabeth Staley Dickey, 40, first white woman to penetrate the jungles of Ecuador; from Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 57, explorer and archaeologist who in 1931 located the source of the Orinoco River; in Dayton, Ohio. Grounds: gross neglect. Wed in 1925, the Dickeys honeymooned in South American jungles. Said she on her return: ''Oysters, music and having one's husband all to yourself are all that civilization offers...
...buildings of the Athenian Acropolis and of the sculptural works of the six greatest Greek sculptors. Roman art is discussed cursorily just before the end of the half-year, and the course concludes with the monuments of the Age of Constantine. Because Professor Chase is primarily an archaeologist, the approach to the important monuments is archaelogical rather than aesthetic; the subject matter is seldom pedantic, and is continually enlivened with mythological and anecdotal detail...