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...following article written by D. G. Lyon is a brief account of the excavations carried on at Nuzi in Iraq by the Fogg Art Museum and the Harvard Semitic Museum with the co-operation of the American School of Oriental Research at Bagdad. It is reprinted from the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D. G. LYON TELLS STORY OF EXCAVATIONS OF AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN NUZI, IRAQ | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

...great prizes as objects of art, the bronze censer and the fragments of frescoes, have come to the Fogg Museum.. The bronze suit of arm or was kept in Iraq for the National Museum at Bagdad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D. G. LYON TELLS STORY OF EXCAVATIONS OF AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN NUZI, IRAQ | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

...shred of muslin and tucked in a soiled sash, the Pink Pearl is taken to Linga, across the Gulf. There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea. From Linga, the Pink Pearl journeys to Bombay or Bagdad, where foreign experts laud its lustre, symmetry, and flawlessness; drive less ceremonious bargains; swaddle the Pink Pearl in fluffy cotton; scurry back, elated, to the great jewellers of Fifth Ave., Bond St., Rue de la Paix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Superlatives Exhausted | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Another Pole, less fortunate, was Lieutenant Kasimir Szalas, Polish army aviator, who flew from Warsaw to sunny, iridescent Bagdad, only to be killed when his Fokker crashed at the southern airdrome. Included in the casualties tragically terminating this 2,438-mile flight were co-pilot Lieutenant Kalina and Mechanic Klosinek, who were both injured. The trio had planned to return on the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pick-Ups | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Railways. Two projects exist for linking India to Europe by rails. The first would begin by completing the famed Berlin-to-Bagdad link (which already functions to a point some miles south of Aleppo) and then extend the line from Bagdad through Persia to India. A development of prime significance in this region, last week, was the signing at Teheran, Persia, of a $100,000,000 contract whereby an international group including Ulen & Co. and J. G. White Engineering Corp. of Manhattan have agreed to build a railroad from Bander Abbas on the Persian gulf to the Persian capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Homage to Majesty | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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