Word: delphi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been carried on principally at Argive Heraeum and Eretria, in both of which places discoveries of a most interesting nature and scientific value were made. Professor Waldstein would rank these excavations with those at Olympia at Epidaurus, and on the Athenian Acropolis, and prospectively also with those at Delphi. The climax of research was the unearthing of the beehive tombs of the Mycenaean period, which had been sought in vain for several years. The vases found therein were nearly all in perfect preservation and the positions of the bones found massed together would indicate that the bodies were not laid...
...attempt to obtain the site of Delphi for excavations has been fruitless as the French claims have proved to be founded upon better grounds than was at first supposed, but the school has carried on a series of original investigations and has obtained a number of interesting and valuable discoveries at Platea...
...French have now secured all the rights for the excavation of Delphi and the $500 which was all that had been paid over for the American fund has been turned over to the general fund of the American Archaeological School in Athens...
...Waldstein, the representative at Athens of the Archaeological Institute of America, has, in accordance with the directions of President Seth Low of Columbia College, withdrawn the American claims to the right to carry on the excavations at Delphi. Under the terms of a treaty but lately negotiated, the French have revived their claims to the right of making these excavations. The Archaeological Institute raised money for the purchase of the village of Castri and for carrying on the excavations, under the impression that the French, by their rejection of a former treaty, had given up all intention of making...
...Chamber of Deputies, at Paris, have voted an appropriation of 500,000 francs to carry on the archaeological excavations at Delphi...