Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned to stone . . . enormous land beasts that shouldered through the early jungles of the world or straddled, whinnying, its ice-blistered rocks - the Dinosaurus, the Brontosaurus and the ringstreaked Lehthyornis, strange fowl: these were, last week, loaded tenderly into 40 trucks, moved into the new building of the Peabody Museum at Yale. More than 2,000 scientists have been invited for the museum's opening. Children of the State of Connecticut, school by school, will be led through for "visual instruction...
...Thomas to near Overton, was discovered the remains of a great Pueblo or rather pre-Pueblo, village. Governor Scrugham of that state, interested in archaeology, came across several historical references to a buried city. He organized an expedition under the scientific direction of Mr. M. R. Harrington of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (Manhattan). Last fall, the site of the buried city was found. Excavations undertaken by Mr. Harrington and Dr. Kidder of the Smithsonian Institution, and financed by the Heye Foundation, have indicated that it is a record of the oldest civilization in this country...
...Babylonia, at Ur of the Chaldees, the expedition of the British Museum and of the University of Pennsylvania began to delve into the ruins surrounding the great ziggurat or tower. The first works uncovered date from about 600 B. C.; in the courtyard of a temple of the Moon God was found a building believed to have been used as a sort of convent schoolroom and museum by the priestesses. Another building, a temple to Nin-Gal, wife of the Moon God, has also been uncovered in a corner of the compound. Some of the objects found dated from...
...summer of 1923 Mr. Warner left for China, taking with him one of his assistants from the Pennsylvania Museum. H. H. F. Jayne '20, on leave of absence for a year. They went directly to Pekin, where they spent a month making the various preparations necessary for a trip into the interior...
...finds of the first expedition will be published by the Fogg Museum within the next few years...