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...semicircle can be drawn from the Persian Gulf to the upper reaches of the Nile. It is this semicircle that Dr. Breasted has chosen for his field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos, lower down; Sakkara and Cairo, at the delta; in Asia Minor, Megiddo, on the Jordan; Calneh, at the Eastern tip of the Mediterranean. Leaving the crescent, an offshoot expedition has settled in Alishar, halfway between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Inland on the Tigris is the Khorsabad expedition, near the site of Nineveh; down...
...Excavations of the Third Egyptian Dynasty at Sakkara" will be the subject of Professor Jean Capart, Director of the Royal Museum of the Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium, who will speak in the Lecture Hall of the Fine Arts Museum, Boston, at 3 o'clock next Tuesday...
...Sakkara near where ancient Memphis stood, and said they thought they had found the tomb of Architect Im-Hotep, the Christopher Wren of 5,000 years ago. Besides building King Zoser's famed Step Pyramid at Memphis and other monuments, Im-Hotep founded the sciences of law and medicine along the Nile. By the time of Publicist Tutankhamen (enthroned about 1358 B. C.) his legend was almost as old as Christianity now is to the modern world. In Ptolemaic times (Fourth to First Centuries, B. C.) he was deified...
...mummified horses, the first of their kind, have been discovered in a royal tomb at Sakkara, near Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. The tomb was found and first opened last year by members of the Harvard-Boston Museum Expedition...
...Sakkara, Egypt, two stone chapels of the Third Dynasty were discovered. They were said to be "the earliest stone buildings ever discovered...