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During his 69 years on this planet, Alan Spencer Hawkesworth of Washington, D. C., by profession a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, has served as mathematician in the Navy Department's Bureau of Ordnance, has lectured on philosophy, discovered some 100 new theorems in geometrical conies, become a cuneiform expert, passed through four South American revolutions and has seen ''heavy fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such...
These and other resounding words were inscribed in cuneiform characters on seven stone tablets, each two feet square, some 2,420 years ago. Lately diggers of University of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute unearthed them at Persepolis, not in the palace but in the ruins of an army garrison where they had been stored. Three of the inscriptions contain matter new to scholars...
...expeditions in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria, to bolster up Biblical lore which in the past 150 years has been assailed by "Higher Criticism"-comparison of ancient texts and detective work on internal evidence. Last month Sir Charles published an account of his work: New Bible Evidence.* The potsherds, cuneiform tablets, scarabs, bricks, cartouches, scraps of foodstuffs and cloth brought to light by his diggers convinced him that...
...month he went to Manhattan to receive from the hands of a special messenger the most important find any of his men have made this year-a clay tablet no bigger than Primo Camera's hand, bearing four columns of marks resembling quail tracks. To learned eyes these cuneiform inscriptions revealed the names and dates of 95 Assyrian kings. Staffmember Gordon Loud of the Iraq expedition turned up the tablet beneath rubbish in the palace of Sennacherib's father, Sargon II, at Khorsabad. Sargon and Sennacherib ruled Assyria seven centuries before Christ. Names of only a few earlier...
...what U. S. city was an ancient cuneiform tablet discovered...