Word: niles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From 1929 to 1939 Smith served off and on as an assistant to George A. Reisner '89, director of the Harvard camp. Reisner published three books on the Nile River civilizations, and Smith is carrying on the work. Sometime in 1952, the University Press will publish Smith's latest book on Queen Hetep-Hores, who was the mother of the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid...
...this blessed day, on which you are rivals in ardor in celebrating the birthday of the King of the Beloved Valley of the Nile, there has been celebrated, in the Grace and under the protection of God, the engagement of His Majesty, King Farouk I, and an exquisite flower of Egyptian society, descendant of an illustrious and glorious family, Mlle. Narriman Sadek...
Westerners are apt to prefer the lively grace of Greek art to the detachment and restraint of the Egyptian, but some Greeks preferred the Nile product. "Long ago," wrote Plato in the Laws, the Egyptians recognized that "their young citizens must be habituated to forms and strains of virtue. These they fixed, and exhibited the patterns of them in their temples; and no ... artist is allowed to innovate upon them . . ." Plato exaggerated...
...writhes and steps from an "oriental dance" for the assembled press. Wrote one reporter: "Her midriff rolled in a slow rhythm, her jet black eyes shot stars and she flashed the whitest teeth in the Middle East." For Farouk she had a special number, "The Bride of the Nile," which (said the newsman) "has a romantic beginning, a tragic finale and, as Samia does it, a restless middle...
Fogg Museum will be the American headquarters of a new center for the study of Nile River civilizations. The center will open in Cairo early...