Word: archeologist
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA-Lowell Thomas-Century ($4.00). This is an age when romantic adventure is supposed to be dead. Yet, not ten years ago, Thomas E. Lawrence, young Oxford graduate, archeologist and poet, entered Arabia on leave from irksome military duties in Cairo and left that country some years later-the "uncrowned King of Arabia." For sheer romanticism, coupled with history-making events, surrounded by names which moved the whole world not so long ago, the story that Mr. Thomas has written about Arabia and Colonel Lawrence has not been surpassed during the present century...
Died. Prof. Allan Marquand, 70, famed archeologist; in Manhattan. To artistic scholarship he gave his person and his purse, organizing the art department of Princeton University, which department he headed for 45 years. His private art library, said to be the finest in the country, he gave to the University...
...unconfirmed radio dispatch received by a British archeologist in Paris, and cabled to America by a Hearst correspondent: "Nepal crowd hear Everest peak reached May 16. Bruce cannot confirm." The principality of Nepal in the Himalayas adjoins Mt. Everest on the east. General Bruce, the original commander of the expedition, has been at Darjeeling convalescing from the attack of malaria which compelled him to abandon the trek...
...Three mummies were found in the vicinity of the tomb of Ramose, vizier of Akhnaton (Amenophis IV), the great king of the 18th Dynasty who attempted to change the religion of Egypt to monotheism. The discovery was made by Dr. Robert Mond, English archeologist, in the region called Sheikh-Abd-el-Qurna, in the Valley of the Kings. Two of the mummies, excellently preserved, were the bodies of a goldsmith and a priestess, his wife. The woman's clothing was wrapped with the body and was found to be practically identical with that worn by the Fellaheen women today...
Peacemaker Breasted. Efforts were made to approach a settlement between the Egyptian Government, on the one hand, and the Countess Carnarvon and Howard Carter, on the other, in the dispute (TiME, Feb. 25 et seq.), over TutankhAmen's tomb. Dr. James Henry Breasted, distinguished American archeologist and historian, who has been in Egypt all Winter, along with many other savants, agreed to act as mediator and started negotiations, but without much optimism. Dr. Breasted, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, is internationally respected as one of the two or three...