Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptian mummy in 1923. Late one night he chanced to read an article recounting "mysterious fatalities" said to have befallen those who have violated the tombs of the Pharaohs. An instant later, he was telephoning furiously. Before dawn the mummy had been removed from his residence to a remote museum...
Scientist Bombed. When two of Chang's airplanes flew over Peking early in the week, dropping bombs at random, their pilots little suspected that one bomb exploded within 20 feet of Roy Chapman Andrews, discoverer of the first dinosaur eggs known to moderns, chief of the American Museum of Natural History's division of Asiatic exploration. Mr. Andrews had wisely leaped beneath a box car when the airplanes soared into view, and was not among the five persons killed (all Chinese). Emerging from his impromptu shelter, he continued to supervise the loading of the car with scientific paraphernalia...
...Phoenix, Ariz., excavations in La Ciudad, a pueblo ruin, continued under Archeologist Erick Schmidt of the American Museum of Natural History. Rewards: carved shells, pottery, arrowheads, grinding stones, two skeletons thought to be those of the race of Canal-Builders who first irrigated the Salt River valley...
...Nevada, an expedition from the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), called in by Governor James Graves Scrugham to examine the great cliff city (Pueblo Grande de Nevada) which he had discovered personally (TIME, March 23, 1925), threw up sand all winter over a stretch six miles long, baring abodes ranging from scooped-out hollows in the earth to extensive stone apartment-buildings that sheltered whole clans; bringing the number of skeletons found to 56, some wrapped in pink, purple and blue shrouds of soft texture, with turquoise, stone and shell ornaments littered near. In the Mountain of the Mother...
...Herbert J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum (Boston) and Gregory Mason, formerly on the editorial staff of the Outlook, cruised the Yucatan coast, putting ashore five times in six days to visit Mayan cities unknown to modern history-Xkaret, Paalmul. Chakalal, Actuo, Acomal. Four or five miles apart, they were each discoverable by a small temple seen from the sea, and might be approached in a launch by a creek or canal leading to a lake, lagoon or bay. These cities were on the trade route between northern Yucatan and Mayan centres in lower Central America, particularly Guatemala. Like...