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...ELISA A. BOTTA...
...following people have been elected to one-year terms as student directors of the Harvard Cooperative Society: Robert A. Wasson, MIT; Charles F. Wu '79; Marvin N. Bagwell '76; Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, Harvard Business School; Cindy Raynor '78; Darcy Bradbury '78; Elisa A. Botta '78; Douglas C. Knott, MIT; Cynthia E. Cole. MIT; Max Donath, MIT; George A. Mabry, Harvard Business School...
...more recent times those two pioneers in Mesopotamian archaeology, Layard and Botta, conducted the first excavations for scientific purpose in that region, and the result of their findings has been the never ending confirmation and growth of Mesopotamian archaeology...
...explorers who have worked among the ruins of Babylon, will speak at 11 o'clock this morning in the Fogg Lecture Room on his recent work near Nippur, south east of Babylon. The discoveries made by Dr. Peters since 1889 have far eclipsed the efforts of the French archaeologists, Botta, Place and de Sarzec, and the Englishmen, Layard, Rassam and Smith...
...that civilization, said the lecturer, has come to us during the present century, most of it indeed since 1840. The French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations. He excavated near Nineveh an old Assyrian palace, probably built about 700 B. C. The palace has over two hundred chambers. This great discovery is exhaustively described and illustrated in five folio volumes on the subject published...