Word: giza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 5,000 years, the great pyramids at Giza (eight miles southwest of Cairo) have been among the wonders of the world; but to modern Egyptologists they are really secondary. Far more important at present are five smaller pyramids at Sakkara near by, which lay buried under the desert sands until 1880. That year, two French archaeologists discovered them and found their inner walls covered with inscriptions. Scholars now regard those inscriptions as the world's oldest large body of religious texts...
...half a century, Reisner lived in Cairo, Egypt, scouring the Near East and working at the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza. In Ethiopia, he excavated the graves and remains of 67 Sudanese kings and queens. At the Giza Pyramids, he found the tomb of a queen who had died around 3,000 B.C., and invaluable works of art from the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt...
...last University expedition left Egypt in 1946, when the Harvard camp--located behind the Great Pyramid of Giza, just eight miles from Cairo--was turned over to the Egyptian government. From 1902 to 1946 the camp was a site of important excavations around the pyramids...
William S. Smith, lecturer in Fine Arts, has been appointed director of the now American Research center in Egypt for 1951. Smith, who also holds a Fulbright Fellowship, will sail for Cairo a week from tomorrow. He will study materials from the recent Giza excavations and survey paintings and reliefs in Middle Kingdom rock-out tombs...