Word: gizeh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These frank sentiments of the late, annoyingly literary George Moore got some rich encouragement last week. The best-known photographer of Harper's Bazaar had turned his glamorizing lenses on Gizeh and Thebes (see cuts). Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (pronounced Hoyningen-Hew-ney), 43, collaborated with Egyptologist George Steindorff, formerly of Leipzig University, in the publication of a super-glossy picture book with a short but solid text, Egypt (J. J. Augustin; $7.50). Fashion photographer Hoyningen-Huene went at his job with self-evident Schiaparelish; he romanticized immemorial stone as effectively as he ever did laces and velvets...
Died. Dr. George Andrew Reisner, 74, famed Harvard Egyptologist; in Gizeh, Egypt. He discovered the tomb of Queen Hetep-heres, mother of Cheops, uncovered the first rich evidences of the civilization of the Fourth Dynasty. In 1911 he announced his answer to the "riddle of the Sphinx," identified it as a portrait of Chephren, Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh...
...Institute has since been operating mostly on the income from this, which amounts to about a third of the former yearly grants. Few other U. S. diggers are working the war-clouded Near East. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, however, has a party at Gizeh in Egypt, where it has labored continuously for 35 years, and where it unearthed among other treasures the gold-cased furniture of Queen Hetep heres I. The American Schools of Oriental Research have a party on the site of King Solomon's ancient Red Sea port (TIME, May 30, 1938) and an expedition...