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...France and Spain. The Mediterranean region has long been a fertile field for the archeologist's shovel. Although many Stone Age relics have been unearthed there, they have been somewhat neglected for findings of the more brilliant Minoan, Egyptian, Grecian and Roman periods. Feeling that prehistoric man was much smarter than is commonly believed, Charles Gates Dawes, banker, musician, ambassador and archeologist, has been taking a holiday in France and Spain to co-ordinate Stone Age findings. With him went Professor George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research in Europe and Addison...
...enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province by Dr. Friedrich Sarre, famed Berlin archeologist...
...good and the photography is only fair, but the material itself is so fascinating that Lost Gods becomes one of the best current illustrations of the educative function of the cinema. It is a record of the expedition, supervised by the Algiers Museum, of the travels in Libya of Archeologist Count Byron Khun de Prorok, whose excavations are made conceivable to non- archeological audiences by the explanation that he is looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things his camera sees are "the Wall Street of Carthage," a bleak row of empty...
...month was another of Roy Chapman Andrews' perennial excursions into the dismal wastes of Gobi Desert. Prime object of the expedition: to find traces of some twigs from the family tree of the "Peking Man." world's earliest human discovered comparatively recently near Peking by Pei Wen-chung, Chinese archeologist...
...building in Luxor and the restoration of the city of Williamsburg, Va.. a project unprecedented in its scope and cost and unlimited in its possibilities as an inspiration in good architecture, patriotism and citizenship. . . ." Honorary membership was also conferred on Professor William Archer Rutherford Goodwin (William & Mary), historian & archeologist who supervised the Williamsburg restoration. The Institute's Fine Arts Medal was bestowed on Architectural Sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman of Manhattan...