Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Persian Gulf to the upper reaches of the Nile. It is this semicircle that Dr. Breasted has chosen for his field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos, lower down; Sakkara and Cairo, at the delta; in Asia Minor, Megiddo, on the Jordan; Calneh, at the Eastern tip of the Mediterranean. Leaving the crescent, an offshoot expedition has settled in Alishar, halfway between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Inland on the Tigris is the Khorsabad expedition, near the site of Nineveh; down the Tigris in ancient Babylonia...
...Into Asia Minor Dr. Breasted has followed his upward-struggling human animal, to uncover layer upon layer of successive towns-"layer cakes of civilization"-over a range of 5,000 years. By this time man had learned to write in cuneiforms, and in cuneiform tablets at Alishar Dr. Breasted brought to light the last remnants of Hittite speech. Meanwhile the Egyptians were going forward, had learned to write on the sides of their cedar coffins. Texts of these writings which the Institute has been translating for nine years, reveal, says Dr. Breasted, "the dawn of conscience." In Sakkara...
...Rockefeller was impressed. Here was a man worth giving a trial. Out of his own pocket he gave $10,000 a year for five years. Dr. Breasted went to Asia Minor. The trip was hazardous. Arabs were in revolt. The first party of white men to cross the Syrian Desert after the War was Dr. Breasted's. When he returned to the U. S., both the General and International Education Boards gave him money. Mr. Rockefeller gave more. Five years ago came endowment by the International Education Board Foundation, and the Institute had come to stay...
...Leonids--artistic dancers, species of leopard in Central Asia, members of a Swedish youth cult, meteors...
...Fairbanks running around a boat deck; then one of Fairbanks dressed in a bath-towel, doing his exercises. In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal by moonlight. The commentary...