Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS LECTURES. "Egypt. II. The Early Dynastic Period (to Snefru)." Professor Reisner. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket. Tickets may be obtained free, on request, from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, if application is accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS LECTURES. "Egypt, 11. The Early Dynastic Period (to Snefru)." Professor Reisner. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket. Tickets may be obtained free, on request, from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, if application is accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
Professor G. A. Reisner, assistant professor of Egyptology, will lecture on "Predynastic Egypt" in the lecture hall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This will be the first of a series of three illustrated lectures by Professor Reisner on the work of the Harvard and Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian Expedition, of which he has had charge for the past eleven years. The dates and titles of the remaining lectures in this series are as follows: March 28, "The Early Dynastic Period"; March 31, "The Age of the Pyramids...
During the past eleven years, Dr. Reisner has been carrying on excavations in Egypt for the University of California. Harvard, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Egyptian government. At the pyramids he has found five great masterpieces of Egyptian sculpture and many alabaster vases and other important objects of early Egyptian periods, all of which are now at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...
...work in Egypt has been carried on in the winter time. Professor Reisner has spent the past two summers and a part of 1908 in Palestine, digging at Samaria, the ancient Hebrew capital, for the Semitic Museum of the University. There he made two discoveries of greatest importance. One of these, the Palace of Omis and his son, Ahab, gives an entirely new conception of the work of the ancient Hebrew architects. The other consists of a hundred fragments of pottery with inscriptions written in ink, which are the earliest Hebraic inscriptions ever found...