Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article written by D. G. Lyon is a brief account of the excavations carried on at Nuzi in Iraq by the Fogg Art Museum and the Harvard Semitic Museum with the co-operation of the American School of Oriental Research at Bagdad. It is reprinted from the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...division with the Iraq Museum the Harvard Museums have had generous treatment. The share of the finds assigned to them, packed in 40 cases, has recently reached Cambridge...
...great prizes as objects of art, the bronze censer and the fragments of frescoes, have come to the Fogg Museum.. The bronze suit of arm or was kept in Iraq for the National Museum at Bagdad...
...Mesopotamia. Some bread, wheat, barley, peas and pistachio nuts were dumped into the bins of a great temple at Kirkuk, Iraq, some 3.500 years ago. They were still there, although carbonized, when diggers recently uncovered the building. Nearby was the home of a rich family. Clay records tell of their marriages and adoptions, their business in slaves, securities, and goods, their loans, deposits and lawsuits...
...service in Iraq, the British government has been using 25-passenger transport airplanes. So successful has the experiment been that the British admit they are designing 50-passenger air transports, with central engine, capable of being repaired in midair for minor troubles. Such planes would be immense: the largest Junkers plane seats only 18 passengers...