Word: egyptologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Empire during the 1st to 4th centuries A.D. was Egypt's Faiyum region, about 60 miles south of Cairo on the Nile. A fertile farming and business community, it was settled by many retired Roman legionnaires, along with emigrant Greeks, Jews and native Egyptians. It became, according to Egyptologist William Peck, 34, a "prosperous, highly civilized region with a well-developed bureaucratic system of local government, and an elaborate social structure, fairly comparable to Detroit." By a fluke of custom and climate, the residents of Faiyum are today among the best known-or at least most clearly visualized-citizens...
Humpty Dumpty Hunt. This miraculous reunion in Richmond owes nothing to the ancient gods of Egypt, everything to Egyptologist Bernard Bothmer of the Brooklyn Museum, a man who plays the mating game with a passion. When he first saw the broken bust in 1951, it left an indelible impression. "It was as if he were alive," recalls Bothmer. "He is tense and poised. I knew that the bottom part would be cross-legged in the stylized posture of a scribe." Then, while combing through the archives at Paris' College de France, Bothmer came upon a yellowed 1934 photograph...
Those who wish to test their critical standards against a great Egyptologist's or simply fill up the time between Bogart movies, may wish to investigate the following representative sampling of "A" titles...
...source of this effulgence--or, more prosaically, the man who bequeathed his thrillers and shockers to Harvard--was George Andrew Reisner '89, an eminent: Egyptologist who won fame by "solving the mystery of the Sphinx." (He showed that its head is a portrait of Chephren, a fourth-century Pharaoh who built the second Pyramid.) Born Nov.5, 1867, in Indianapolis, Reisner was graduated from the College summa cumlaude and then earned a Ph.D. here in Semitic Languages...
...expense. Some will be taken all the way out of Egypt, as rewards by the U.A.R. for archeological aid from other . The stopped-up starch for buried raise that will be hidden permanently by the Nile has been happened only by climate, red tape and a lack of Egyptologist. But Abu Simbel presents a special case...