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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egypt. Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, 4,800 years ago was the first great Pharaoh of Egypt. Harvard men under Dr. George A. Reisner have put together much history of his line. His father was Snefru, his mother Hetep-Heres I. Cheops loved her greatly. When her first tomb at Dahshur was robbed, he secretly reburied her at Giza, close to his pyramid. Cheops had four queens and several children. One of these, Chephren, built the second pyramid. His doughtiest daughter was Hetep-Heres II, a biological curiosity. Other Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...principal discovery which was made during the season at Uaxactun in the Maya field consisted of an important stucco covered pyramid probably dating from about 72 B. C.," said Dr. Sylvanus Griswald Morley '07, archeologist and Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to a CRIMSON reporter recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2000 YEAR OLD PYRAMID EXHUMED IN UAXACTUN | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Last fortnight the right-hand cornerstone of the pyramid of names, Fayolle, was knocked out by Death (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mighty Dead | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...militant glory of France may be summed up, today, in a pyramid of six great names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mighty Dead | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Near Berlin, Germany, rises the curious town of Neubabelsberg. To walk through Neubabelsberg is to imagine oneself the Wandering Jew, reviewing his travels in a dream. Here one may stand in awe before India's Taj Mahal, turn the corner and climb an Egyptian pyramid. Miserable Chinese hovels may adjoin the chateau of the French Renaissance. One may be anywhere, at any time, in Neubabelsberg. It is Germany's Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: In Neubabelsberg | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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