Word: drioton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a report of Junker's lecture trickled through neutral countries to Cairo, archeologists began digging. Sure enough, they soon unearthed tomb writings definitely identifying the necropolis as Heliopolis' cemetery. Dr. Etienne Drioton, director of Egypt's Antiquities Service, last week reported that the diggers had already turned up valuable information about the city's Stone Age inhabitants. Digging continues...
...save the temples, the Egyptian Government has recently appropriated some $60,000. But that, says Director General of Antiquities Etienne Drioton, is nowhere near enough. Unless many more thousands are spent soon, these great archeological relics, now precariously shored and buttressed, will disappear...