Word: babylonian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...characterized at the University of Pennsylvania by extraordinary activity in the direction of building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school and the new dormitories...
Semitic Conference. Babylonian Parallels to Genesis i. and ii. Professor Lyon. Sever...
Semitic Conference. Babylonian Parallels to Genesis i. and ii. Professor Lyon. Sever...
...Philadelphia Museum is now being built upon a lot of ground opposite Franklin Field. It is designed when completed to cost five million dollars, and is intended to contain, besides the collections owned by the city, the wonderful series of Babylonian relics, secured by Professor Hilprecht, and rivalled in value by the collection in Constantinople alone...
Professor Herman V. Hilprecht, Curator of the Babylonian Department of the Museum, recently returned to Philadelphia after conducting one of the most successful expeditions ever sent out by the University. His work consisted in carrying out archaeological investigations in Asia Minor and in cataloguing antiquities in the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople. Professor Hiprecht, though his official capacity as cataloguer of these specimens, has succeeded in obtaining for the university many rare archaeological objects. Another occurrence of interest in this connection has been the series of lectures recently delivered by Dr. Doerpfeld, the eminent German archaeological scholar...