Word: ethiopia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among the more important finds have been ten large statues of kings of Ethiopia, five of which were complete. The expedition has also uncovered the foundations of temples built by Egyptian kings of the 18th dynasty, and proved that the sphinxes of Amenophis III and other monuments of that period found at Barkel belong to these temples, and were not brought there in later times, as some historians have assumed...
Important discoveries which are said to have supplied much of the hitherto obscure history of ancient Ethiopia have been made recently by the Eqyptian expedition sent by the University and the Boston Museum of Fine Ants under the direction of Dr. George Andrew Reisner '89. In a recent report Dr. Reisner said that during excavations at Gebel Barkal, material bearing on the whole period between 1600 B. C. and 100 A. D. had been found and that prospects were that further excavations would bring to light objects of still greater importance...
...Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward, to plunge once more and to bend northward again at old Dongola. This is the region where ancient Egypt merged into Ethiopia, and where the architectural and other remains of antiquity betray the presence of kings more ancient still than those who built the temples of Napata. Where does the romance enter, in the researches which Dr. Reisner carried on here? In the fact that the explorer finds the ancient statues of the Ethiopian...