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Died. Dr. George Byron Gordon, 57, able archaeologist, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis...
...desert compose the panorama, which finally reaches its climax at the beginning of the snow-less Mongolian winter when the expedition sights the walls of ancient Kharakhoto, the Black City of Marco Polo, deserted for centuries to the shifting sands of the desert, a romantic paradise for the adventuring archaeologist...
...real acquaintance with solitude. Miss Gather is nearly 50 now; sociable when she likes; vigorous, cheerful, charming. But more and more she is a recluse who, having had experience as country girl (Nebraska), college girl (Nebraska State), reporter and editor (Pittsburgh Leader and McClure's Magazine), teacher and archaeologist, enough to "last a lifetime" is increasingly a subtle artist after the Wordsworth formula, "emotion recollected in tranquillity...
...researches of Professor Guildi necessarily resembled those of a detective as much as an archaeologist. Three months ago a tourist picked up in Cyrene a fragment of an old bust and brought it to Rome; Guidi set out with his assistants, and for three months sifted the shallow loam of the old coast town for other fragments. Piece was laid to piece; the statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet...
...look at the grotesque faces decorating the four corners of Muyil's highest temple would alone incline the archaeologist to the opinion that Muyil is not a First Empire city. Such faces or "mask panels" are common in Maya architecture; but in the southern and older area the details of the face are generally built up of stucoo, whereas in the northern and later area they are in relief. These faces at Muyil are in relief that is, cut into the walls...